[American Revolution]:

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[COLLECTION OF UNRECORDED EDINBURGH PRINTINGS OF FIVE BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY ACTS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, INCLUDING THE SUGAR ACT, THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT, ... A collection of hitherto unrecorded Edinburgh printings of five key Acts of Parliament passed in the lead-up to the American Revolution, all relating to either the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, or the Prohibitory Act. These are the only copies of these Edinburgh printings to appear in the market, and we find no record of them in the standard bibliographies, or in ESTC or OCLC. By the second half of the 18th century, the printing and promulgation of the Acts of Parliament had been regularized to a much greater extent than they had been a century before. The Acts almost always appeared first in London under the imprint of His Majesty's Printers. Though printed separately, each with its own titlepage, the Acts of each session were continuously paginated so that at the end of each session the Acts could be collected together, bound, and distributed. By contrast, contemporary reprints of the Acts produced by provincial printers outside of London appeared only sporadically, on an ad hoc basis. When such Acts were reprinted in places like Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, or Philadelphia, it was usually because the Acts themselves were deemed by the printers to be of some interest to local readers. Of these provincial centers, Edinburgh issued by far the most reprints, but even these have surv

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