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American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Overview of Paris's royal and public libraries' volumes, plus statistics on printing, bookselling, engraving trades, and counts of various types of journals published there.
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There are at Paris 79 printing offices, 616 booksellers, 201 book binders, 390 copperplate engravers, 38 letter founders, 17 map engravers, &c.
The publications of Paris are 14 political journals, 4 advertisers, 10 half periodical works, 3 religious journals, 9 scientific journals, 15 literary journals, 22 journals of law and jurisprudence, 14 medical journals, 12 journals for arts and professions, 2 military journals, 2 journals for education, 2 geographical journals, and 2 journals of fashions.
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The royal library of Paris has 700,000 printed volumes and 70,000 manuscripts. Other public libraries in Paris have 150,000, 110,000, and 92,000 volumes. There are 25 public libraries in the departments with above 1,700,000 volumes. At Paris there are 79 printing offices, 616 booksellers, 201 book binders, 390 copperplate engravers, 38 letter founders, 17 map engravers, and others. The publications of Paris are 14 political journals, 4 advertisers, 10 half periodical works, 3 religious journals, 9 scientific journals, 15 literary journals, 22 journals of law and jurisprudence, 14 medical journals, 12 journals for arts and professions, 2 military journals, 2 journals for education, 2 geographical journals, and 2 journals of fashions.