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History of Printing in Maryland, 1791-1800 with a Bibliography of Works Printed in the State During the Period by Rachel A. Minick
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First, there is the matter of the almanac.

Gruber putlished his first Neue Hord-Amerieanise he
stadt und Land Calender in 1796.64 The next year,
Grieves, possibly to compete with this highly suc-
cessful publication, advertised the Maryland and
Virginia Almanac for the year 1798.65 Perhaps
the English almanac was never issued afterwards; at
least, there is no record of it. Gruber's almanac
will soon celebrate its sesquicentennial.

In 1799, Gruber printed a primer, Hoch-Deutsches
Lutherisches A. B. C, und Namen Euchlein; 66 1300,
Grieves followed with the Modern Primer.67 In 1799,
also, both printers issued texts of the United States

Constitution, Grieves in English and Gruber in Ger-

68
man. Since only one or two scattered issues of

Gruber1s German newspaper, Die Westliche Corres-
pondenz. for the period to 1800 are extant today,
it is impossible to carry this comparison to any
conclusion; but from these few examples it seems
probable that the English and German printers vied in
giving the different sections of population similar
Publications.

64 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 310.

65 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 379.

66 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 497.

67 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 610.

68 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, items 546,543,


 

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