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But Emerson wrote to Whitman from Concord: "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Until the Civil War was half over, Whitman remained in Brooklyn, patiently composing new poems for successive printings of his book.
But to do that sort of thing requires a profound knowledge of stamps and a ready command of a very large banking account. Generally speaking, the best countries from an investment point of view are British Colonials, especially those of the small colonies that have small populations, and therefore very small printings of stamps.
Altogether, their exhibit with its large collection of elegant satin prints, its studies for artists, its historical feature, showing the enormous development of the firm's work since 1856, its interesting illustration by successive printings of how their pictures are made, and its instructive and artistic arrangement of their collection, made it one of the most attractive features of the fair.
His son, square, dark, with his sleeves rolled up showing immense muscles developed at the levers of his presses, bent his black beard and frowned his heavy brows above his printings. 'Doubtless God shall break His engine when its work is done, he muttered. 'You call Privy Seal God's engine? the old man quavered ironically. 'Thomas Cromwell is a brewer's drunken son.
Stamps requiring two separate printings i.e. stamps printed in two colours have given rise to many curious errors in printing. A sheet passed through the press upside down after one colour has been printed results in one portion of the design being inverted.
"Cherry Ripe" cost five thousand pounds to reproduce, by the laborious processes of printing not only each colour, but almost every different shade of each colour from a different surface. In the "three-colour-zinco" process of reproduction only three printings are required, each colour with all its delicate gradations of shade being fully provided for by a single engraved block.
Chettle speaks strongly against these 'intruders in the printings misserie, by whome that excelent Art is not smally slandered, the government of the State not a little blemished, nor Religion in the least measure hindred.
"The Backwash of War" was suppressed by the British, French and American governments. It went through four printings first, and is now released again. Golden Stars. #McCourt, Edna Wahlert.# *Lichen. #MacManus, Seumas.# Conaleen and Donaleen. Heartbreak of Norah O'Hara. Lad from Largymore. #Mann, Jane.# Born near New York City of Knickerbocker ancestry.
First there was the Voltaire text, Authorized Edition, 'end of September, 1740; then came, in few weeks, the Van Duren one; then, probably, a third, combining the two, the variations given as foot-notes: in short, I know not how many editions, translations, printings and reprintings; all the world being much taken up with such a message from the upper regions, and eager to read it in any form.
It was issued at threepence per copy, and an old memorandum of the printers now lying before me shows that in the paper's earlier years the average printings were 130,000 copies weekly a notable figure for that period, and one which was considerably exceeded when any really important event occurred.
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