A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland

Fifteenth Year of the | Dominion of the Right Honou-| rable Charles, Lord Baron | of
Baltemore, Absolute Lord and | Proprietary of the Provinces of | Maryland and Avalon,
&c. Annoq;| Domini 1729.) [Baltimore arms] By Authority.| Annapolis:| Printed and Sold
by William Parks. M,DCC,XXIX.| [Price Two Shillings to those who bought the whole Body
of | Laws, and Two Shillings Six Pence to others.] |

Sm. fol. [A]¹, B-K¹, L¹; 20 leaves; pages [i-ii], 1-[38]; p. [1]: title; pp. 1-138]: text, with session heading and tail-
piece; page [38]: "Advertisement".

Leaf measures: 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. Type page, p. 2: 252 x 137 mm.

Advertised as "lately published" in the Maryland Gazette for Oct. 21-28, 1729.

MdHS. MDioc. (lacks t. p.) Pleasants (lacks t. p.) BBL. MDSL. LC. NYBA. HU. HLS. BM.

53. —To His Excellency | Benedict Leonard Calvert, Go-| vernor and Commander in
Chief, in and over | the Province of Maryland,| The | Humble Address | of the | Upper
House of Assembly.) [Address delivered July 11, 1729 on general matters, Court of Chan-
cery, Act against Engrossing and Regrating, etc., and his Excellency's answer.] [Type de-
vice]. [Annapolis: Printed by William Parks. 1729.]

Single leaf, printed both sides, ornamental initial.

Leaf measures: 11 13/16 x 7 5/8 inches. Type page, p. [i], including heading and rules: 260 x 133 mm.

NYPL.

54. —Votes and Resolves,| of the | Lower House of Assembly of the Province of | Mary-
land.| (July 10-Aug. 8, 1729.) [Annapolis: Printed by William Parks. 1729.]

Sm. fol. No signatures. Issued in numbered parts, each part with separate pagination, and each with imprima-
tur at end, as in V. & P. of Oct. 1728; No. I: pp. 1-4, with heading as above and session heading of nine lines;
No. II: pp. 1-3,-p. [4]: blank; No. III, pp. 1-4; No. IV: pp. 1-4; No. V: pp. 1-4; No. VI: pp. 1-4; No. VII: pp. 1-4;
No. VIII: pp. 1-4; No. IX: pp. 1-6; No. X: pp. 1-4; No. XI: pp. 1-5,-p. [6]: blank; No. XII: pp. 1-6; No. XIII:
pp. 1-2; No. XIV: lacking in NYPL. copy, but present in BM. copy.

Leaf measures: 11 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches. Type page, p. 2, No. I: 270 x 135 mm.

Each group of numbers as indicated above has a separate heading, and was published at its appropriate time
in the course of the session. Also bound together and sold complete at close of session. See Maryland Gazette,
July 8-15, 1729.

NYPL. BM.

55. [Cut] The | Maryland Gazette | [Cut] (Jan. 7, 1728/29-Dec. 30, 1729, Nos. 69-120.)
[Colophon, Nos. 69-93 as in 1728; beginning with No. 94, as follows:] Annapolis: Printed
by William Parks; By whom Subscriptions are taken for this Paper, at Fifteen Shil-| lings
a Year; and Advertisements to be inserted in it, at Three Shillings for the first Week, and
Two Shillings for | every Week after. N. B. Old Books are well bound by him.|

11 3/4 x 7 inches; two leaves each number except Nos. 69-71 which have one leaf each; two columns to a page.

MdHS. has Nos. 69-74, last leaf probably of 75, 77-86 (No. 80, wrongly numbered 79, which is used twice),
89, 91, last leaf of 92, 93-97. No. 97 probably had a supplement devoted to the conclusion of "A Modest Enquiry
into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency", for end of second leaf stops in middle of a sentence in this
article and has catch-word "who". NYPL. has Oct. 21-28, No. 111. See Plate Va for title arrangement.

56. [A Primer, containing a most Easy Way to attain to the True Reading of English. In-
structing children in the Grounds of the Christian Religion. In a Catechism compiled by
the Assembly of Divines. With Proper Lessons, Prayers and Graces. Annapolis: Printed
by William Parks. 1729.]?

No copy recorded of what seems to have been a Presbyterian catechism. Advertised as "just published" in
Maryland Gazette, for July 1, 1729. See note to No. 59. "Primers" were advertised among Parks's importations
in the Maryland Gazette for Oct. 20, 1730.

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