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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ducted themagazine for several years, until appointed health officer at Quarantine,when he was succeeded, temporarily, by Thomas Allen, afterward theeditor of the Jfa(h.so/uan at Washington, and who more recentlyranked ainong the raihvav magnates of the countrv. In 1840 Pen-son J. Lossing became the editor of the magazine, and executed theengravings for it. It was discontinued at the close of the eighthvolume. It was early in this decade that the two most extensive publishinghouses in the city of New York in 1883 began to take an importantposition in the realm of literature. These are the houses of Harper &Profilers and Daniel Appleton it Company. The former takes prec-edence in point of time, that of Harper & Brothers beginning businessin the city of New York in 1817, and Daniel Appleton & Company in1825. The former was established by James and John Harper, sons ofa Long Island farmer. Both had been apprentices to different personsin New York to learn the art of printing.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 281 When the brothers had readied manhood they joined interests andbegan business for themselves by setting up a small book and job print-ing- offi.ee in Dover Street, in New York, not far from the great estab-lishment of Harper cV: Brothels at the present time. It was an auspi-cious time for them, as with the return of prosperity after the war of1813-15 there was a great demand for books. Evart A. Duvckinckwas then a prosperous bookseller in Xew York, and he employed J. & J. Harper to print the first book that was issued from theirpress. In August, 1817, they delivered to him two thousand copies ofa translation of Senecas Morals, which they had composed andprinted with their own hands. In the winter of 1S18 they resolved toprint a book on their own account. They first ascertained from lead-ing booksellers how many copies each one would purchase from them insheets. In April they issued five hundred copies of a reprint of Lockes Essay on the Human Understan

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