Description
Oregon Historical Quarterly, Reprint of an article from the June 1955 issue, pamphlet, pages 107-125.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Cream pamphlet has light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall aging. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. In the 1930s, Douglas C. McMurtrie (1888-1944), a typographer, began a project to identify printed materials that had been produced either in the Oregon Territory or in Oregon during its early statehood period. In 1943, the University of Oregon Press agreed to publish a bibliography of these printed materials. The press' editor, George Belknap (1905-1996), checked McMurtrie's list and made additions and corrections. Although McMurtrie died in 1944, the resulting volume, "Oregon Imprints, 1847-1870," was still published under his name in 1950. Belknap published several supplements and bibliographical revisions to this work in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in the 1950s and 1960's. In this article, Belknap explains the difficulties facing the bibliographer in distinguishing and describing separate issues from separate titles of early Oregon documents. He then sets forth several revisions to McMurtrie's "Oregon Imprints"