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Acknowledgements
This work could not have been completed without the help of numerous
librarians, archivists, and other historians. A partial list includes many at the
American Antiquarian Society, the Gunston Hall archives, the Huntington
Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Library of Congress, the
Massachusetts Historical Society, the New York Historical Society, and both the
Rockefeller Library and the Historical Research Division at the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation. Individual thanks especially to the late Lawrence Levine
(who inspired my theoretical approach) and scholars Elizabeth Eisenstein, Cynthia
Kierner, Martha King, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, David Copeland, and
David Waldstreicher, each of whom offered me guidance along the way. Needless
to say, any errors and omissions are all mine.
Thanks also to the George Mason Department of History, and many
professors, especially Dr. Paula Petrik who helped bring awareness of the
importance of typography, 1 Dr. Jack Censer, and my dissertation advisor, Dr.
Rosemarie Zagarri.
I owe special thanks to my friend and copy editor, James Cheney Olcott.
Errata that slipped through are due to my intransigence.
Most of all, I offer special gratitude to my wife, Carol. Without her love
and support this book would never have happened. She has supplied endless
understanding and encouragement through an arduous process. Thank you so
much, Carol. I love you.
1 This book is set in Adobe Caslon Pro typeface, a more readable version of the actual type
used by eighteenth-century printers. The original Caslon type used a combination of the normal s
and an ascending s, which looks more like our modern f, and is extremely difficult for the modern
reader to decipher.
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