Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, No. XVIII, April, 1854Various
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Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, No. XVIII, April, 1854
Various
Fashion -- 19th century -- Periodicals; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Women's periodicals, American
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From LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, & CO. (successors to Grigg & Elliot), No. 14
North Fourth Street, Philadelphia:--
A NEW AND COMPLETE GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES. Giving a full and
comprehensive review of the present condition, industry, and resources
of the American confederacy; embracing, also, important topographical,
statistical, and historical information, from recent and original sources;
together with the results of the census of 1850, and population and
statistics in many cases to 1853. By Thomas Baldwin and J. Thomas, M. D.
The enterprising publishers of this valuable and important work may very
justly feel gratified in being able to present it to the public, and with
equal truth do they claim it to be the most elaborate, comprehensive, and
perfect "Gazetteer" of the United States that has ever issued from the
press. Instead of 800 pages, to which the work was originally restricted,
it has swelled to 1,400 pages, embracing at least 10,000 names of places
not to be found in any other "Gazetteer," together with the appropriate
statistics and information. Neither the hope of profit, nor the pressure
of competition has induced the publishers to present their work before it
was complete, or before all the ample materials furnished by the census of
1850, and other statistics and important facts in the hands of editors,
were "fully digested and arranged." The expense incurred in the production
of this unequalled "Gazetteer," in which, besides the editors and their
assistants, several thousand correspondents in all parts of the United
States were engaged, has consequently been very great, amounting, as we
learn, to more than $30,000.
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