Download e-book for iPad: Atlantic Canadian Imprints: A Bibliography, 1801-1820 by Patricia Lockhart Fleming

The first complete analytical bibliography of Atlantic Canadian imprints, this quantity covers a few 320 books, pamphlets, broadsides, executive courses, and serials. such a lot haven't been indexed prior to in any bibliography or catalogue. They characterize the holdings of greater than thirty libraries and documents within the 4 Atlantic provinces, and in Ontario, Quebec, the USA, and England.

Each access follows the foundations of descriptive bibliography and contains complete collation, contents, checklist of paper, kind, and binding, research of factor and nation, and site of each replica tested. ancient notes care for authorship, printing, publishing, distribution and revenues, and with the content material of significant works and the connection among goods. association is via province, then by way of yr of publication.

The fabric catalogued features a wide selection of matters. God and govt are of the most typical, yet there are numerous others: schooling, municipal association, heritage, elections, transportation, agriculture, criminal trials, and a few societies—benevolent, nationwide, non secular, and masonic. There also are many almanacs, together with one in German, a number of satires and addresses in verse, and a French abécédaire. no longer strangely in a nineteenth-century Maritime bibliography, sign books and judgements approximately piracy abound.

Six indexes offer entry through writer, identify, style, trades, position of ebook, and language.

Patricia Fleming’s paintings maintains Marie Tremaine’s A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751–1800 and supplementations that paintings with new and formerly unlocated imprints. It provides a necessary aspect to our figuring out of print verbal exchange in Atlantic Canada.