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the output of their printing office included the Balti-
more Repository for the year 1801;⁷⁷ two novels, Simon
Berington's Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca,⁷⁸
and J.H.B. de Saint Pierre's Paul and Virginia;⁷⁹ and
at lt,ast three almanacs for 1801, Bonsai and Niles¹
Town and Country Almanac,^8Q the Citizen and Farmer's
Almanac®¹ and the Maryland and. Virginia Almanac. The
Cavern of Death, a Moral Tale, may have been published
during the first two years of Eonsal and Niles' Balti-
more establishment; but no information has been found
for ascertaining the date.⁸³

This advertisement of apparatus offered for sale
in 1800 gives an intimation of the firm's equipment
(why it should be offered for sale at this time seems
problematical since the partners were apparently
building up their business):

Printing press and types for sale. Bonsal &
Niles, booksellers, no. 173, Market-street,
have to dispose of a now and elegant printing
press, large enough for any paper printed in
this city. Also the following founts of print-
ing types,

77 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 555.

78 Appendix A. imprint bibliography, item 560.

79 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 624.

80 Appendix A, Imprint bibliography, item 561.

81 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 569.

82 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 604.

83 LC card 6-2279 dates Cavern of death "[l795?]."
Since Eonsal and Niles' Baltimore office opened
in 1799, this edition must have been published
between 1799 and 1804 when the firm dissolved.