Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints

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46 D lydia bailey creation of this material are rare, so it is extremely difficult to track down the works of single printers. There are gaps in runs of reports and almanacs printed by Bailey because historically these have been cataloged as serials; this has sometimes made it challenging to locate individual years, though surely she printed entire runs. Conversely, numerous titles appear in her journal that I could not pin down as identifiable imprints (see the appendixes). I expect that a vast majority of her identifiable imprints appear here, but I am quite aware that there will be additions to the checklist in the future. I have cited Hudak when there is an entry in her bibliography; I have not included the statement “not in Hudak” for all the others. The same applies for Checklist Amer. Imprints, as well as particular subject bibliographies for later material . However, I do mention when an imprint is not in those lists with more comprehensive coverage, such as Shaw and Shoemaker, Shoemaker, and subject bibliographies that cover earlier imprints. This is a checklist of copies examined, not of all copies known; one copy was sufficient for identification purposes in most cases; multiple copies were looked at when needed to distinguish variants. Format Entries are listed chronologically by year of imprint and alphabetically by main entry (normalized) within each year. When an attribution to an anonymous work is certain or almost certain, the main entry appears in brackets; less certain attributions are mentioned in notes. The entries consist of a main entry, title, and imprint; a brief pagination statement, including an indication whether an item was illustrated or contained plates and either format or height when known; citations for a limited number of bibliographies; miscellaneous notes; and the location of copies seen. Journal folios are cited when available. Journal entries are occasionally annotated with a note when the person billed is not the same as the person listed in the published imprint or when the printing details are particularly complicated. Title-page transcriptions are shortened where possible; sentence-style capitalization is used following The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (8.156), but spelling (and misspelling) is retained. For this reason, certain names will be found in variant forms (most noticeably “Bennet” and “Bennett”; “DeSilver” and “Desilver”—both forms appear in contemporary city directories). I did not make a new entry for separate states of a work in which the publishers’ names appear in varying orders. However, multiple states of a work are listed separately when the names of the publishers are different. ...