librarycompany: “ TGI Fore-Edge Friday! This German hymnal features a painted heavy-parchment binding, gilt and gauffered edges, and closes with leather and metal clasps. Although the title page of Marburger Gesanbuch cites Philadelphia as the place...

librarycompany:

TGI Fore-Edge Friday! This German hymnal features a painted heavy-parchment binding, gilt and gauffered edges, and closes with leather and metal clasps. 

Although the title page of Marburger Gesanbuch cites Philadelphia as the place of publication, it was actually printed and bound in Germany before being shipped to Ernst Ludwig Baisch, an 18th-century German-American bookseller in Philadelphia.

Marburger Gesanbuch.  Philadelphia, : Zu finden by Ernst Ludwig Baisch, in der Zweyten Strasse, nahe bey der Rees-Strasse., 1774.  Am 1774 Marb Gesang 112573.D

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Jul 09, 2016
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