A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland

1734

86. [GREW, THEOPHILUS. Crew's Almanack, for the Year of our Lord God, 1735. Being the
third after Bissextile. Wherein are contained, The Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses; The
Increase, Decrease, and Length of the Days and Nights, the Rising, Southing, and Setting
of the Heavenly Bodies; with many other Things, both pleasant, useful and necessary.
Calculated according to Art. And referred to the Horizon of 39 Degrees North Latitude,
and 75 Degrees, West Longitude, from the famous City of London, fitting Virginia, Mary-
land, Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and New-York. By Theophilus Grew, Student in the
Mathematicks. Printed and Sold by William Parks, at his Printing-Offices in Virginia and
Maryland. 1734.]

No copy recorded. Advertised as "Just Published" in Parks's Maryland Gazette for Nov. 22, 1734.

MARYLAND, PROVINCE OF. (There were no acts passed at the convention of Assembly
of March 19, 1733/34-March 25, 1734, nor was the printing of the V. & P. provided for by
the customary resolution.)

87. [Cut] The | Maryland Gazette | [Cut]. [Colophon as in issue No. 51 under year 1733.]
NYPL. has Nos. 54 (Jan. 11-18, 1734), 64 (May 17-24, 1734), 71 (July 11-19, 1734), 73 (July 26-Aug. 2,

1734), 74 (Aug. 2-9, 1734), 81 (Sept. 20-27, 1734), 86 (Oct. 25-Nov. 1, 1734), 89 (Nov. 15-22, 1734), 90 (Nov. 22-

29, 1734), the only known copies of this year's issues. Evidently this newspaper ceased publication soon after

this, for there are no traces of it in the year 1735 or later.
See Plate Va for title arrangement.

1735

88. MARYLAND, PROVINCE OF. Laws of Maryland,] enacted | at a Session of Assembly, be-
gun and held | at the City of Annapolis, on Thursday, | the Twentieth Day of March, in
the | Twentieth Year of the Dominion of the | Right Honourable Charles, Lord | Baron of
Baltimore, Absolute Lord and | Proprietary of the Provinces of Mary-| land and Avalon,
&c. Annoq; Domini 1734. | [Baltimore arms] By Authority.| Annapolis:| Printed and Sold
by William Parks. M,DCC,XXXIV. [sic] | (Price Two Shillings to those who bought the whole
Body of | Laws, and Two Shillings and Six Pence to others.) |

La. 4to. I preliminary leaf, A-F², G¹; 14 leaves; pages [1-2], 3-[28]; p. [1]: title; pp. 3-27: text, with session
heading; p. [28]: contents.

Leaf measures: 12^ x 8| inches. Type page, p. 4: 256 x 139 mm.

The date of publication was printed as given above, but obviously should have been 1735.

MdHS. MDioc. BBL. (imp.) MDSL. LC, HLS. BM.

89. —Votes and Proceedings | of the | Lower House of Assembly, of the Province | of Mary-
land. | (March 20, 1734/35-April 24, 1735) [Annapolis: Printed by William Parks. 1735.]

Sm. fol. A-P; 18 leaves; pp. 1-36: text, with heading as above, session heading of seven lines and tail-piece.

Leaf measures: 11 1/4 x 7 inches. Type page, p. 2: 247 x 136 mm.

This is a compiled edition, not a collection of the parts issued separately throughout the session.

MDSL.

1736

90. MARYLAND, PROVINCE OF. Laws of Maryland, | enacted | at a Session of Assembly, be-
gun | and held at the City of Annapp-| lis, on Friday, the Nineteenth Day | of March, in
the Twenty First Year of | the Dominion of the Right Honourable | Charles, Lord Baron
of Baltimore,) Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the | Provinces of Maryland and Avalon,

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