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...Brooklyn, one Harry Pardee, printer, came home late, misplaced his key. Fearing to arouse his wife, he climbed to the elevated railroad station adjacent to his house, took off his coat, jumped for the roof. He missed, fell 40 feet to the pavement. Later the key, wedged in a matchbox, was found in his pocket...
...second English printer, several of whose editions are being shown, was Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510. He inherited his types from Caxton, and a noteworthy fact is that he adopted his predecessor's complete heading, and added to it special designs both above and below...
This week there is on exhibition in the Widener Room of the Memorial Library a collection of some of the earliest English printings. Perhaps the most interesting piece on exhibit is one leaf from "The Canterbury Tales", published in 1488 by William Caxton, the first English printer. This single page is probably worth $300 as it stands, while a complete volume of this book would easily bring...
News. The only headlines were the names of the places from whence the "freshest advices," had come. For many years Printer Parkes devoted his front pages to despatches from England, Russia, France. Fortunate were subscribers if they found a foreign September despatch the following February. But colonists cared little how stale the news so long as it was interesting...
Advertisements. Mr. Parkes obtained few advertisements for his Gazette. They were mostly for sales of plantations, "for money or tobacco, very cheap . . . containing 200 acres of good Land, with a good bearing young Orchard, of Variety of Good Fruit Trees. ..." Printer William Rind, a later owner, fared better. Sometimes he was able to insert as many as two pages of advertising, dealing with "Run Way Slaves," slaves to be sold, slaves arrested and refusing to give names of masters, doctors who were about to open a season of vaccination, lottery winners, sailings of ships. Advertising costs were indefinite: "3 shillings...