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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Larger catechism. New York: stereotyped and printed by J. Watts & Co. for Whiting & Watson, theological and classical Booksellers. June 1813 (OCoLC)657173854 |
Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexander M'Leod; J. Watts & Co.,; Whiting and Watson, |
OCLC Number: | 7372790 |
Notes: | "The first book ever stereotyped in America."--Title page. The statement on the title page is correct, in that this is the first book printed from stereotype plates made in the United States, though the Philadelphia Bible Society had already published, in 1812, a stereotype Bible printed from imported plates. See Rollo Silver, Typefounding in America (1965), page 60. Collation: 12mo: A-M⁶ [$1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$2']; 72 leaves, pages [2 unnumbered] [1] 2-142. |
Description: | [2], 142 pages ; 18 cm (12mo) |
Responsibility: | agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, with the assistance of commissioners from the Church of Scotland, and received by the several Presbyterian churches in America; with the proofs from the Scripture, revised by Alexander M'Leod, D.D.. |
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