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Handsome, colonial New York newspaper from 1743
Handsome, colonial New York newspaper from 1743
Item # 702364
December 23, 1745
THE NEW YORK WEEKLY POST-BOY, Dec. 23, 1745
* Very rare Colonial NYC publication
* 30 years prior to the Revolutionary War
As those who follow our offerings know, it is rare that we have the opportunity to offer American newspapers from the 1740's. Here is a very handsome issue from 1745 featuring a nicely engraved, well-inked coat-of-arms engraving in the masthead.
The entire front page and over half of page 2 are taken with a report from the commander-in-chief of the province of New Jersey to his Assembly. Page 3 has much reporting under the dateline of "Annapolis, in Maryland", then other reports from Charleston and New York.
A very handsome issue, 8 1/2 by 12 1/4 inches, wide, never-trimmed margins, very nice condition.
background: This issue of The New York Weekly Post-Boy from December 23, 1745, serves as a remarkable artifact of the "incunabula" period of American journalism, printed by James Parker on high-quality linen rag paper that has likely outlasted its wood-pulp successors by centuries. Its "never-trimmed" margins and crisp masthead engraving of the New York provincial seal suggest a specimen that escaped the typical fate of being bound and sheared, preserving its original 18th-century dimensions. The content—dominated by Governor Lewis Morris’s address to the New Jersey Assembly and dispatches from as far as Charleston—captures a pivotal moment in colonial history during King George’s War, when the "Post-Boy" functioned as a vital nerve center for a burgeoning inter-colonial identity. Because such early issues are rarely found outside of institutional archives like the American Antiquarian Society, this specific copy represents a significant bridge to the political tensions and printing craftsmanship of the mid-1740s.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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