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Item # 706108
July 02, 1806
THE LITERARY TABLET, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 2, 1806  A scarce title as it is not listed in Brigham's "History & Bibliography of American Newspapers" nor in Mott's "History of American Magazines". it existed from 1803 thru 1807.
Published bi-weekly, 4 pages, never bound nor trimmed, wear at the folds.

Background: The publication of The Literary Tablet on July 2, 1806, represents a critical snapshot of the Early Republic’s intellectual landscape, specifically within the orbit of Dartmouth College. During this era, Hanover, New Hampshire, served as a frontier of American higher education, where literary periodicals functioned as the primary "social media" for the scholarly elite to debate Enlightenment philosophy, Federalist politics, and neoclassical poetry. This specific issue emerged during a period of intense transition in American printing; because it remains unlisted in standard bibliographies like Brigham’s or Mott’s, it serves as vital evidence of a "lost" provincial press that operated outside the major urban centers of Boston or Philadelphia. The paper’s survival in an unbound and untrimmed state is historically significant because it preserves the physical integrity of 19th-century "ephemera"—items intended to be read and discarded—providing scholars with rare data on paper stock, ink quality, and the specific distribution methods used by small-town printers to foster a burgeoning American national identity through shared literary culture.