age of about a quarter of an inch in the width of a page and three to four lines in the length. The matrices are expensive, costing from 30 to 40 cents each, depending upon the quantity purchased. AN OLD-TIME SOUVENIR. An interesting example of early printing in Chicago is an invitation to a… … place and office in the city. Chicago in 1848 was printed in the job office of the Chicago In sizing up the enterprise as an advertising proposition Journal, which then maintained such a department. The Messrs. Sherlock and Keene consider the hundi’ed dollars invitation announced “ quadrille and…
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![An illustration from A Description of the Westminster Tobacco Box ... Compiled by [John E. Smith, for] the Overseers for 1887, etc. (Pt. I. A reproduction of the ... account, engravings ... published in ... 1824; Pt. II. Notes on the office of Overseer; extracts from the accounts of the overseers ... 1561-1590; ... copies of the inscriptions ... & ornaments ... to 1887, etc.) (1887)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/bl-bl_002239278_0-155-2.webp)
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