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London, 1792), 8-9, 37-39,124. For Dobson's Encyclopaedia Britannica, see R. D. Arner, Dobsons Encyclopaedia The Publisher, Text, and Publication ofAmerica's First Britannica,1789-1803 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). For Carey's signature opposing a duty on type, see Book Trades Collection, AAS, 2:2 (March 8, 1802).

31 W. Clarkin, Mathew Carey: A Bibliography of His Publications, 1785-1824 (NewYork: Garland, 1984), 26-27.

32 See, in general, C. N. Davidson, "The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple: The Biography of a Book," in Reading inAmerica: Literature and Social History, ed. C. N. Davidson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989),157-79, esp. 161.

33 "To the Members of the American Philosophical Society" (April 1824), in Carey, Miscellaneous Essays, 241-46; Bradsher, Mathew Carey, 34-35; Carter, "Political Activities of Mathew Carey," 115-17; American Philosophical Society Library, Report (1943),73; Carey, Autobiography, 43-44.

34 D. S. Ben-Atar, Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins ofAmerican Industrial Power (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004); D. H. Stapleton, The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987), e.g., 21-22, for the Strickland mission (see below); N. L. York, Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985),155-76;j. E. Cooke, Tench Coxe and the Early Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978),182-too; B. H. Mann, Republic ofDebtors: Bankruptcy in the Age ofAmerican Independence (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002),112-15; Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution, 114-18.

35 [M. Carey}, A, Short account ofAlgiers 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, 1794),11-13,16, 33-36; Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution, 70.

36 R. Buel, Securing the Revolution: Ideology inAmerican Politics, -T789-i8-[5 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1972), 54-55, 59-60, 69-70; D. N. Doyle, Ireland, Irishmen andRevolutionary America, 1760-1820 (Dublin: Mercier, 1981), 194-96; Carter, "Political Activities of Mathew Carey," 135-37, 208-10, 219, 228, 237-38; [M. Carey], Address to the House ofRepre- sentatives (Philadelphia: for M. Carey, 1796); Treaty ofamity, commerce, and navigation ... to which is annexed a copious appendix, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: for M. Carey, 1795).

37 EveningStar, October 30, 18io, quoted in C. L. Nichols, "The Literary Fair in the United States," in V. H. Paltsits et al., Bibliographical Essays: A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1924), 85-92, esp. 85.

38 J. Raven, London Booksellers andAmerican Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, -1748--1811 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002), 204-17; for the Philadelphia Society, see Roberts Vaux toJonahThompson, August ,o, 18o5, Vaux Family Papers (Collection 684), HSP.

39 Remer, Printers and Men of Capital, io5-8, 116-19; Mann, Republic of Debtors, 258-61; Carey, Autobiography, 41-43. The seventy-three-year-old Rivington ended up imprisoned for debt after a counterpart whom he had guaranteed defaulted: Rivington to Thomas Bradford, HSP MS Bradford Collection, unbound correspondence, April 20,1797-

40 M. Carey, Plumb Pudding 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: printed for the author, 1799), 9-12 and passim; M. Carey, To the public (Philadelphia, February 5, 1799), 6-8; D. A. Wilson, United Irishmen, UnitedStates: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998), 43-57; Bradsher, Mathew Carey, 73; Remer, Printers andMen of Capital, 37; Buel, Securing the Revolution, 18o.

41 M. Carey to J. M. O'Conner, July io, 1817, MCP, AAS, i:i; Carter, "Political Activities of Mathew Carey," 112-13; Cole, Irish Booksellers 48-49; Bradsher, Mathew Carey, 37n34; W. Charvat, Literary Publishing inAmerica, 1790-1850 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 [19591), 25-26, 30-33; Silver, "Costs of Mathew Carey's Printing

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