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Shakespeare in Lexington Bookstores – by 1811


From the Kentucky Gazette, July 2, 1811


NEW BOOKS


Just Received by

Johnson & Warner,


At their Bookstore Opposite the Branch Bane, Main Street, Lexington, the following new and valuable


BOOKS


Which we will, as usual, sell low – viz.


. . . [Excerpts from lengthy list.]

Smith’s Wealth of Nations, 2 vols.

. . .

Swift’s Evidence

. . .

Campaigns of Bonaparte

. . .

Homer’s Odyssey (gilt 2 vol.)

Ditto Iliad

Shakespeare’s Plays, 3 vol.

. . .

The Book of Martyrs, with a Christian plea against persecution


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