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BOOKS PAMPHLETS AND NEWSPAPERS PRINTED AT NEWARK NEW JERSEY 1776-1900
A LIST COMPILED BY
FRANK PIERCE HILL LIBRARIAN OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY FORMER LIBRARIAN OF THE NEWARK FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
AND
VARNUM LANSING COLLINS REFERENCE LIBRARIAN OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
PRIVATELY PRINTED 1902
EDITION LIMITED TO THREE HUNDRED COPIES
PRIVATE PRESS OF COURIER-CITIZEN COMPANY.
THIS BOOK AN IMPERFECT LIST OF NEWARK IMPRINTS IS DEDICATED TO THE MONKS OF THE PASSAIC
AND THEIR BRETHREN OF THE MEERSCHAUM
PREFACE.
THE TOWN OF NEWARK saw a century pass by before the first printing press of which any record has been found was set up within its limits. It is true that David Ogden, the distinguished Newark lawyer, published a letter "To the Several Persons claiming under the Indian Purchases " in regard to the adjudicated dispute between the purchasers and the East Jersey Proprietors, which he dated " Newark, February 20, 1767." But this octavo pamphlet of eight pages (seven numbered), of which there is a perhaps unique copy in the Library of Princeton University, has neither title page nor imprint, and the extreme improbability of its being the work of a Newark printer has led to its rejection in this bibliography.
In September, 1776, Hugh Gaine, the New York printer, sent one of his presses over to Newark and there issued seven consecutive Whig numbers of his "New York Gazette." This piece of political double-facedness does not, however, entitle him to the honor of being Newark's first printer, although it gives him the earliest Newark imprint.
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He remained in New Jersey but seven weeks ; and for the next fifteen years so far as is known there was no press in the city. At last, in 1791, John Woods established an office "Near the Episcopal Church " and in May of that year began the publication of his "Newark Gazette and New Jersey Advertiser." His work as recorded by the sixteen or more imprints bearing his name and listed in the following pages extended from 1791 to 1797, and to him, then, by right of seniority belongs the first place in the long line of Newark printers. Closely following him come Daniel Dodge, Jacob Halsey and Stephen Gould ; then, in rapid succession, Matthias Day, John Wallis, the Tuttles and Benjamin Olds, to name only some of the most prominent. It is a list of the publications of these men and their successors that is here presented.
When the project of a bibliography of Newark imprints was first broached it met with strong discouragement, the assertion being made that Newark could lay no claim to bibliographical interest. That Newark strictly speaking has not been a book-making centre is probably undeniable. In pre-Revolutionary days it was too near to New York to make the printer's trade profitable ; during the Revolution its proximity to Tory headquarters rendered impossible the existence of a Whig press- and no other would have been tolerated ; while in the century that has just closed perhaps more attention has been given to commercial development than to the making of books. These facts, however, make the output of the Newark press all the more interesting.
Historians have begun to realize that the ephemeral productions of a local press, which vanish so rapidly when once their timeliness has passed, are of greater value as mirrors of their day than many of the more pretentious volumes which have been deemed worthier of preservation on library shelves. The trend of historical research is daily
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calling into requisition the most varied kinds of material, and in this material pamphlets, sermons and addresses, municipal reports, almanacs, newspapers, school catalogues and all the host of minor printed items have their distinct place. The first step toward the intelligent use of such material is to know what there is in existence. This bibli- ography of Newark imprints was therefore undertaken and carried out in the belief that its value would be second only to that of a bibliography of material relating to Newark. It will be understood, then, that this is not a list of works relating solely to that city, although the large majority of its items closely concern its history. It is a list of works printed or published at Newark. It is, further, a list of only such publications as have been printed in English.
That it is incomplete the compilers are well aware; but they feel that no effort has been spared to make it as com- plete as possible. The Newark Public Library and the Library of the New Jersey Historical Society were ran- sacked and the Library of Princeton University was also laid under contribution. Requests for information were sent to all Newark printers and publishers, lawyers, minis- ters and collectors, and any other individuals who might furnish data. Booksellers' catalogues, secondhand book lists and the standard American bibliographies have all been drawn from. Hunt's more or less correct manuscript "Catalogue of New Jersey Books and Pamphlets " and the "List of New Jersey Books and Pamphlets not in Hunt," both of which bibliographies are on file in the New Jersey Historical Society Library, have been freely used ; yet almost every day brings in fresh data. Obviously, to wait for the end would be to postpone publication indefinitely, and it has therefore been thought best to publish the bibliog- raphy as it is, with the hope of issuing at some future date at least a supplement, if circumstances warrant.
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A few explanations are necessary in regard to the method of entry. The author's name has, as a rule, been omitted from the title and the punctuation therefore slightly altered. Cover titles have been used only where the title page of the copy seen was incomplete or wanting. Where the paging or size or printer's name is omitted, it may be taken for granted that access has not been had to a copy of the item in question. This has been particularly true of all data obtained from secondhand book lists and auction catalogues. Regarding serial publications and departmental documents, the full title of the earliest known issue has been given, and in a note is added all the informa- tion obtained. Here insurmountable difficulties were often encountered. It was not possible to get full series of almanacs and newspapers or of Newark departmental reports. It was not even possible to ascertain definitely what reports had been issued by the City Departments, and only those are here named which were found. Efforts to get sets of Insurance and Building and Loan Association literature were so fruitless that they were given up. In the case of serial reports no attempt has been made to follow the slightly varying readings of different years. Books appear under date of their first editions and notice of other editions is there made also, unless the titles of the later editions vary. The size is given according to the A. L. A. standard. An asterisk prefixed to a date indicates that the work has been seen, and usually that it is in the Newark Public Library, while a suffixed asterisk indicates that the book is in the Library of the Historical Society. The letters "n. p." in certain imprints indicate that no printer's name is given or that the volume in question has no pagination. Likewise the letters "v. p." mean " various printers."
In pioneer work of this kind obligations are great, and for the willing assistance that has generally been given
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when asked, sincere thanks are here returned. To Miss Emma V. Baldwin of the Brooklyn Public Library, and for- merly of the Newark Free Public Library, are due well-earned acknowledgments of her active and efficient co-operation in gathering the material for this list. Invaluable, too, has been the generous aid of Miss Henrietta Palmer, formerly librarian of the New Jersey Historical Society while to the help which Miss Marie F. Wait, Miss Palmer's successor, has been kind enough to give, the compilers are indebted. Thanks are also due to Mr. Noah F. Morrison of Newark for his numerous courtesies, to Mr. William B. Morning- stern for his painstaking and valuable assistance, and to Mr. Herbert L. Thowless for his repeated contributions and scholarly aid. No one can touch New Jersey history at any point, bibliographically or otherwise, without coming, as to a last court of appeals, to the Corresponding Secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, William Nelson, Esq., M. A., of Paterson, N. J. It is regretted that it was not possible to make full use of Mr. Nelson's permission to : search his valuable private collection for Newark imprints in time to insert all the results in the body of this book. What does not appear there will be found in the Appendix. The nucleus of the list, however, is taken from his rare "Check List of Issues of the Press of New Jersey" (Pater- son, 1899), and his familiarity with early printing has been called on frequently for help over what would have otherwise been an impasse. For his active and unfailing interest, for his indispensable and generous personal aid, and especially for the hospitable courtesy with which he placed his library at the disposal of the writer, most grateful acknowledgment is here made. The free use to which the chapter on the Newark Press in Mr. Joseph Atkinson's "History of Newark" has been put will be evident to all who know that work.
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The Appendix contains titles obtained too late for inser- tion in the body of the book, or of which the date of imprint is unknown to the compilers. Corrections, additions or completions of any kind will be welcomed.
Finally, it should be said that this list, excepting the Appendix, was mainly completed by Mr. Hill before the pressure of official business in a fresh field of labor compelled him to call in assistance to edit the material and see it through the press. The whole credit of undertaking the enterprise and carrying it out is therefore his alone. V. L. C.
PRINCETON, N. J., March Ist, 1902.
NEWARK IMPRINTS.
1776
1776 [Gaine's] New York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury. I
NOTE. - Only seven numbers were printed in Newark, as follows : -
130I Sept. 21, 1776. Folio.
1302 Sept. 28, 1776.
Quarto.
1303
Oct. 5, 1776. Quarto.
1304
Oct. 12, 1776.
Quarto.
1305
Oct. 19, 1776.
Quarto.
1306
Oct. 26, 1776.
Quarto.
1307 Nov. 2, 1776. Quarto.
" Hugh Gaine was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1726, and learned his trade there in the office of James Macgee. At the expiration of his apprenticeship he emigrated to New York, where he found employment with James Parker. In 1752 Gaine opened a printing-house of his own, and on August 3 of that year began the publication of 'The New-York Weekly Mercury,' and continued the paper under that title until 1770, when he changed it to 'The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury.' Under the latter title it continued to appear until November, 1783, when he ceased its publication. In 1753 he incurred the dis- pleasure of the Assembly on account of publishing an inaccurate report of their proceedings, and was summoned to the bar of the House, where, upon his apologizing, he was reprimanded by the Speaker and released. " When the Stamp Act came in force in November, 1765, Gaine, like many other American publishers, suspended the regular issue of his paper. In place of it he put forth a sheet sometimes headed 'A Patriotic Advertisement,' and at others 'No Stamped Paper to be had.' One other incident in Gaine's career in connection with his newspaper must be mentioned. It is, I believe, without a parallel in the annals of
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journalism. At the outbreak of the Revolution Gaine, after a slight leaning toward the American canse, assumed and maintained a strict neutrality ; hnt when it became likely that the British would occupy New York in September, 1776, he sent one of his presses to Newark, and on the 28th of that month began to issne there a quarto newspaper bearing the name and imprint of ' The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, Printed by Hugh Gaine, at Newark, in East-New-Jersey,' devoted to the Whig canse, at the same time continning to issne his neutral paper of the same name, from his sign of 'the Bible and Crown,' in Hanover Square. The Newark edition was issned two days earlier than the New York one, but, besides bearing the same name, was numbered in sequence with the earliest issned. This was continued until November 2, making duplicate numbers and two papers of different politics from No. 1301 to 1307. After the hattle of Long Island Gaine concluded the American to be the losing side, withdrew from Newark, and gave his paper a British tone which it preserved nntil its termination." - Hildeburn in Sketches of printers and printing in colonial New York.
This interesting notice is found in number 1304: - " This paper has now been published in this town four weeks, and sent to the customers, that could be found, as usual. The great and uncommon expense attending the carrying on business at this juncture, obliges the publisher to request those in arrear to discharge their accounts, which will be gratefully acknowledged by
"The publick's humble servant,
" Hugh Gaine."
The Lenox Library possesses the only known file of this curious example of a newspaper published simultaneously on two sides of a question then at the arbitration of the sword.
1791
*1791 Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of New Jer- sey. Proceedings of a Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, In the State of New-Jersey, Held in Trinity Church, in Newark, June First, Second, Third and Fourth, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety- one. 15 p. O. John Woods. 2
1791 to 1800 (?) Woods's Newark Gazette and New-Jersey Advertiser. F. John Woods. 3
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NOTE .- A weekly journal, of which the first number was issued on May 13, 1791. It was the earliest newspaper printed in Newark.
The issue for October 2, 1793 (Vol. 3, No. 21), is entitled Woods's Newark Gazette and Paterson Advertiser. In November, 1797, Woods sold out and his name was dropped from the title, the paper being " printed by John H. Williams for the Proprietors." Among these proprietors was probably Jacob Halsey, a Long Island printer and patriot. It is certain that he was the proprietor at the end of the century, carrying on a printing office, bookstore and bindery in connection with the news- paper. He sold the concern about 1800 to John Wallis, one of his assistants, and retired in 1807 or 1808. The Gazette is thought to have ceased publication soon after he left Newark. A file complete enough to give exact dates of these changes could not be seen.
1793
1793 [Fish, Samuel.] An Humble Address to every Chris- tian of every Nation and Denomination of People under Heaven : Shewing An Effectual Means to Prevent Wars among all Nations of the Earth, and to maintain an ever- lasting Union in Families, Societies, Churches, Towns, States, And in all the Kingdoms of this Lower World. Matthew v. 9. Blessed are the Peace-Makers for they shall be called the Children of God. 68 p O. John Woods. 4
NOTE .- Signed at end by Samuel Fish, and dated Lebanon, October, I793.
*1793 Macwhorter, Alexander. A Festival Discourse Occasioned by the Celebration of the Seventeenth Anni- nersary of American Independence, In the Town of Newark. By Alex. Macwhorter, D. D. To which is annexed the Declaration of Independence, which was read, with a few Introductory Remarks, by Alex. C. Macwhorter, Esq., A. M. He hath not dealt so with any Nation .- David. O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, Agricolas .- Virgil. 24 p. O. John Woods. 5
NOTE .- Mr. A. C. Macwhorter's "Introductory Remarks " begin on page 17. The Declaration of Independence begins on page 19. The word " Anniversary " is misprinted as ahove.
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*1793 [Webster, Noah.] The Prompter. A Bellows. 58 p. S. John Woods. 6
NOTE .- Copy seen lacked title page.
1794 Numerong C.N.1. 1784 1794* Macwhorter, Alexander C. An Oration delivered on the Fourth July, 1794, to a numerous audience, assembled in the Presbyterian Church of Newark, to celebrate the Eighteenth Anniversary of American Independence. By Alexander C. Macwhorter, Esquire ; Counsellor at Law. Published at the desire of the Republican Society of the Town of Newark. 22 p. S. John Woods. 7
1794 Petition and representation of the Society instituted in Morris County, N. J., for the promotion of Learning and Religion. D. [ John Woods ?] 8
1794 Scheme of a lottery to raise $39,900. I leaf. Q. 9
John Woods.
*1794 United States Magazine or general repository of use- ful instruction and rational amusement. Vol. I, No. I. April 1794. John Woods. 10
NOTE .- Five numbers, April to August, were issued, that of August ending abruptly at page 280, with an unfinished sentence. Pages 281- 284 are the index. See also Appendix.
1794 *. Woods, John. Woods's Town and Country Almanac, with an Ephemeris of the Motion of the Sun and Moon- The true Place and Aspects of the Planets-The Rising, Setting and Southing of the Moon, For the Year of our Lord 1794; Being the second after Bissextile, or Leap- year, and the 18th Year of the American Independence. Containing the Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Rising
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and Setting of the Planets, Judgment of the Weather, length of Days and Nights, &c., &c. Together with a variety of useful Tables, Receipts, &c. By J. N. Hutchins, Philom.
Man fair nature's secret working doth inspect, He knows how to advise and to direct; Into the world by Act and Science brings, And searcheth out the hidden birth of things. He seeks ont Jove-his Thoughts will not be try'd, In vain from him the Stars themselves do hide.
32 [?] p. S. John Woods. II
NOTE .- Copies are known to have been issued in 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1797, and it is probable that others were published. "Act" is possibly a misprint for " Art."
1795 C.N.J. 1789
*1795 Crane, Isaac Watts, An oration delivered in the Presbyterian Church, at Elizabeth-town, on the Fourth of July, 1794, at the request of the militia officers; it being the eighteenth anniversary of American Independ- ence. Published at the request of a number of the auditors. [Latin quotation.] 23 p. O. John Woods. 12
*1795 Ogden, Uzal. Antidote to Deism. The Deist Unmasked ; or an ample Refutation of all the Objections of Thomas Paine, against the Christian Religion; as contained in a Pamphlet, intitled, The Age of Reason ; addressed to the Citizens of these States. By the Reverend Uzal Ogden, Rector of Trinity Church, at Newark, in the State of New-Jersey. To which is prefixed, Remarks on Boulanger's Christianity Unveiled. And to the Deist Unmasked, is annexed a Short Method with the Deists. By the Reverend Charles Leslie. If this age be singularly productive of INFIDELS, I shall not, therefore, conclude it to be more knowing, but only more presuming than former ages; and their conceit, I doubt, is not the effect of the
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exercise of the powers of reason. Minute Philosopher. In Two Volumes-Vol. I. Newark. Printed by John Woods, M,DCC,XCV. (Copy Right secured, accord- ing to Law. ) 2 vols. 327 p., 342 p. S. I3
NOTE .- Title page to Vol. 2 reads the same through the words "Christianity Unveiled." The rest is as follows: To the DEIST UN- MASKED, is annexed an APPENDIX, containing the Concessions and Recantations of several Deists in favor of Christianity : And also, a Short Method with the Deists. By the Reverend Charles Leslie. In the New Testament are contained the words of Eternal Life. It hath God for its author ; salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Locke.
1795 Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Convention of the Protestant Episco- pal Church, In the State of New-Jersey. Held in Christ's Church, Shrewsbury, on the Third and Fourth Days of June, 1795. [10] p. O. John Woods. 14
1796
1796 Aber, Israel, The art of manufacturing salt peter. 23 p. S. 15
1796 Centinel (Sentinel) of Freedom, F. Daniel Dodge & Co. 16
NOTE. - Weekly predecessor of the Daily Advertiser. It was the second newspaper published in Newark and has continued its career from October 5, 1796, to date. Daniel Dodge was printer and Aaron Pennington editor of the first volume. In October, 1797, it appeared under the auspices of Aaron Pennington and Daniel Dodge, publishers. On October 1, 1799, it passed into the hands of Jabez Parkhurst and Samuel Pennington. In the following Jannary Parkhurst sold his share to Stephen Gould, who with Pennington conducted the paper until May, 1803, when he retired. In November Pennington also retired and the paper was continued hy William Tuttle and John Pike. The latter retired the next year, and in August, 1804, William Tuttle & Co. became sole publishers and controlled it until it was sold to the proprie- tors of the Daily Advertiser.
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1796 President II. Being observations on the late official address of George Washington : designed to promote the interest of a certain candidate for the Executive, and to explode the pretensions of others. Addressed to the people of the United States. 16 p. O. Daniel Dodge & Co. 17
1796 Psalms of David with Hymns, for the use of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America. D. 18
1797
1797 An Answer to T. Paine's letter to the President. [Daniel Dodge & Co.] 19
1797 Combs, Moses N. A Magazine : containing a variety of Essays on Scripture. D. Dodge & Co. 20
NOTE .- Only a few numbers were issued, and no further information has been obtainable.
1797* Crane, Isaac Watts, An Oration delivered in the Presbyterian Church, at Newark, on the Fourth of July, 1797, At the request of the Citizens of Newark. It being the Twenty-First Anniversary of American Independ- ence: by Isaac Watts Crane, A. M. Published at the request of a respectable number of the auditors.
" A nation despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." "'Divide et impera,' divide and command, is the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us." Publius. In union there is strength. Common Observation.
24 p. S. John Woods. 21
1797 Curtis, John, A new collection of Hymns and Spir- itual Songs. Daniel Dodge & Co. 22
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*1797 Dickinson, Jonathan, Familiar letters to a Gentle- man, upon a variety of seasonable and important Subjects in Religion. By Jonathan Dickinson, A. M., Minister of the Gospel at Elizabeth-town, N. J .- To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Phil. iii. 1 .- I have written briefly, exhorting and testifying, that this is the true grace of God wherein you stand. I Pet. v. 12 .- Even as our beloved Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, hath written unto you. As also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Pet. iii. 15, 16. 416+[1] p. S. John Woods. 23
*1797 Griffith, William, The Scriveners Guide ; containing concise precedents of Acquittances, Deeds of sale, parti- tion, &c. Agreements, Indentures of Apprentice, Arbi- tration and Awards, Leases, Assignments, Licence of Debtors, Attornies Letters, &c. Mortgages, Bills of Sale, Promissory notes, bills, &c. Bonds and conditions. Recognizance, Composition with creditors, Wills and Codicils. With practical Notes and Explanations. " Mul- tum in Parvo." By Wm. Griffith, Esq., Counsellor at Law. 48 p. S. John Woods. 24
NOTE .- This is a re-paged reprint of pages 273-320 of the author's "Treatise on the Jurisdiction and Proceedings of Justices of the Peace."
*1797 Griffith, William. A Treatise on the Jurisdiction and Proceedings of Justices of the Peace, in civil. suits ; with an Appendix, containing Advice to Executors, Adminis- trators and Guardians-also, an Epitome of the Law of Landlord and Tenant, the whole interspersed with proper forms, and calculated for general instruction. By Wm.
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Griffith, Esq., Counsellor at Law. The second edition, with improvements, a new chapter on conveyancing. 12+320+21 p. S. Printed by John Woods, For the Author. 25
NOTE .- The first edition was printed at Burlington, N. J., in 1796.
1797 A last speech, confession and dying words of a Deist. [Daniel Dodge & Co.] 26
1797 Newark Fire Association, Articles of association and systems of organization and regulations. 24 p. D. Daniel Dodge & Co. 27
NOTE .- This association was formed in response to a call issued by Alexander Macwhorter and Uzal Ogden. See Atkinson's History of Newark, p. 174.
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