freemasonry coustos john (1 Ergebnisse)

73 of 83 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 73 of 83 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Scarce, with three recorded copies (AAS, Yale, Boston Aetheneum). The Brookfield printer Ebenezer Merriam was born Dec. 15, 1777 in Leicester, Massachusetts, son of Ebenezer and Margaret (Jefferson). At the age of thirteen, he began a six year apprenticeship in Worcester, with Isaiah Thomas. In 1798, he established with his brother Dan, E. Merriam & Co., a printing and book binding business, located in the West Parish of Brookfield with a printing press which had formerly been used by Benjamin Franklin. The firm would be the precursor to the formation of Merriam-Webster. Not in Evans. Lowens 208; Walgren 549; ESTC W12639 Later calf and blue boards. Chips to corners of the title without loss to text.