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Letterpress broadside, 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Old folds, minor staining and wrinkling, small hole in lower left corner. Very good. Untrimmed. Likely a satirical piece relating to the urban versus rural rift in Pennsylvania, with a tone mocking the sophistication of those in the countryside. The quote beneath the title passage, referencing the work on theatre, reads: "Taken principally from authors of the Seventeenth Century, and therefore well adapted to the customs, manner, and opinions of the year 1827." The quote is attributed to a work titled NEW PRINCIPLES OF LOGIC, which does not seem to exist. The printer's name is also comical, and cannot be matched to any printer known to have worked in Pennsylvania. Lastly, we could find no record of the supposed publishers, Hurn & Pinchback. In fact, the only notable Pinchback in the American historical record is P.B.S. Pinchback, an African-American publisher, soldier, and politician who became the first African American to serve as a governor in the United States when he took the oath as acting governor in Louisiana in 1872. But Pinchback wasn't born until 1837, and seems to have no connection to Pennsylvania. OCLC records just one copy of the present broadside, at the University of Pennsylvania. Rare and curious. OCLC 1048883581. Seller Inventory # WRCAM56238
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