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MG-A(G.773.061
26 Aug 1773:42 (1459)
July 7, 1773. William Aikman, bookseller and stationer in
West-street, Annapolis.
On Monday last opened his circulating library consisting
of above 12 hundred volumes on the most useful sciences,
history, poetry, agriculture, voyages, travels,
miscellanies, plays, with all the most approved of novels,
magazines and other books of entertainment, to be lent out
to read at one guinea per year, 20 shillings for six months,
12 shillings per quarter, 5 shillings per month, or 3 pence
per night. . . [7 lines]
He has likewise imported a large assortment of most of the
books in the library for sale. . . [13 lines, also sells
stationery and jewelry, signed] William Aikman.
N.B. Catalogues both of the library and the books he has for
sale to be had at his shop.
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