the title as above, and with
Baudouin’s imprint on the reverse of the half-title, which reads:
Histoire et procédés du Polytypage et du Stéréotypage. In the other issue the title reads:
Histoire et Procédés du Polytypage et de la Stéréotypie . . . Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l’Institut National . . . Brumaire
An X.
In this issue there is no printer’s mark on the title-page and the verso of the half-title leaf is blank. The half-title
reads:
Histoire et Procédés du Polytypage et de la Stéréotypie.
Jefferson’s manuscript entry would seem to call for the issue with Baudouin’s imprint, and the reading
Stereotypie. The book sold by Reibelt had the reading
Stéréotypage. In these circumstances it cannot be said with certainty which issue was in Jefferson’s library. Reibelt was interested in
Renouard’s stereotype editions, and on February 19 of the same year had sent Jefferson six copies “
du catalogue des editions stereotypes de Renouard a Paris--et vous pries, de vouloir bien les distribuer dans votre famille.”
Quérard cites only the Renouard issue; the copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale and in the British Museum appear to have the
Baudouin imprint.
Armand Gaston Camus, 1740-1804, French politician and philosopher, was keeper of the archives of the Republic. According to law none of the operations
of producing the
mandats could take place except in his presence, and he acquired therefore a complete practical knowledge of the art of stereotyping.
Abbé Alexis Marie Rochon, 1741-1817, French astronomer and scientist, was closely associated with Hoffmann. On pages 56 and 57 is an account of the
Essai d’Imprimerie présenté à l’academie royale des sciences le 8 de février 1786, par M. l’abbé Rochon
, with a reprint of the broadside (an original copy of which broadside is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress).
On page 33, 34 of Camus’s work is a reference to Rochon’s interest in the printing experiments of Franklin.
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3
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 102, Perkins’ Bank Bill Test, pamphlet.
PERKINS,
Jacob.
Perkins Bank Bill Test.
Newbury-port:
W. and J. Gilman,
1809.
First Edition. Folio. 4 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
Not in Sabin.
Bathe,
Jacob Perkins, page 31.
Jacob Perkins, 1766-1849, inventor, was a native of Newburyport. In 1809 the State of Massachusetts passed a law compelling banks in that
State to use the check plate invented by Perkins.
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Book-keeping.
1
Gordon’s counting house.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 51. no. 46, as above.
GORDON,
William.
The general counting-house, and man of business. Calculated to promote facility and accuracy in accounts of business, relative
to the merchant, the banker, underwriter . . . With the method of negotiating bills of exchange, in all the trading countries
in Europe . . .
Edinburgh:
A. Donaldson,
1766.
8vo. 247 leaves, tables and forms.
William Gordon, Scottish accountant of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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2
Hayes’s modern book-keeping.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 51. no. 47, as above.
HAYES,
Richard,
Accountant.
Modern Book-keeping; or, the Italian method improved; containing rules and directions for keeping . . . Accompts by double
entry . . .
Second Edition.
London,
1739.
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