Source : HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820

Source Title American Imprints Inventory: The WPA Historical Records Survey Project Division of Community Service Programs Work Projects Administration. No. 17. A Check List of Ohio Imprints 1796-1820.
Description This volume of Ohio imprints is based on the field work in thousands of libraries by the staff of the American Imprints Inventory and of the WPA's Historical Records Survey, and is issued as the seventeenth in the series of check lists of the American Imprints Inventory. As the first published list of Ohio imprints, this volume contains a list of Ohio imprints from the onset of printing in the area now known as Ohio through 1820.
Scope of Text This volume contains a total of 590 records of items, other than newspapers and periodicals, which were printed, or which are presumed to have been printed, in Ohio before 1821.

Of the total, 38 are broadsides or broadsheets, leaving 552 which are books or pamphlets. Official publications of the territorial or state government form a large proportion of the total, comprising 123 titles in all. Materials relating to the religious interests of early Ohio account for 176 titles. The political, civic and public life of the community is the topic of 112 titles. Sixty-six of the titles explore the cultural life of early Ohio. Twenty-one titles address education. Forty-five are early Ohio almanacs. Geography, description and travel comprise 18 titles. Six titles are concerned with medicine. Biography is represented by 7 titles. There are 10 popular manuals, or handbooks, on local government and on matters commercial, industrial, legal, and military. History is the predominant subject matter of 9 titles. Twelve titles focus on farming, 7 on crafts and industries, and the remaining 5 on pure science.
Total Records in AED 591
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.