Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Lydia Bailey – Mistress of Her Situation
Setting the Stage
The Early Years
The Trade
Patronage
Her Way
Checklist of Lydia Bailey Imprints
Methodology
Forms
Bibliographies Cited
Abbreviations and Location Symbols
The Checklist
Appendices
1. Unlocated Imprints
2. Bailey’s Journal
3. Names from Journal
4. Primary Material Relating to Lydia Bailey
Index
Karen Nipps is Head of the Rare Book Team at Harvard University's Houghton Library, USA.
“Karen Nipps has made a substantial contribution to early American
bibliography and printing history with Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of
Her Imprints. This is, so far as I know, the largest checklist of
any nineteenth-century American printer's output and the only one
covering such a long span of time. More than most bibliographies,
it is both a work of scholarship and an incitement to more
scholarship.”—James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia
“Karen Nipps's useful checklist of Lydia Bailey’s imprints and her
perceptive account of Bailey's business methods provide a valuable
glimpse into the inner workings of the Philadelphia book trade at
the peak of its prosperity.”—John Bidwell, The Morgan Library and
Museum
“In this study, Karen Nipps draws together a remarkable amount of
information about the life and work of Lydia R. Bailey, a job and
contract printer in Philadelphia during the early years of the
United States. The picture of Bailey’s career that emerges goes a
long way toward enriching our understanding of the early American
book trades in all their variety.”—Michael Winship, University of
Texas at Austin
“Philadelphia is a city of printers and publishers, from Benjamin
Franklin to J. B. Lippincott, but until the publication of this
fine checklist and perceptive essay, we have lacked a serious study
of the woman who served as the city printer from 1813 until the
mid-1850s.”—Matthew Shaw The Library
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