Prospectus for Freemasons' Magazine and Miscellaneous Library.

• imprint_number: 1810.041
• title: Prospectus of a new periodical work. It is proposed (in case sufficient encouragement offers to justify the undertaking) to commence the publication of a new work in Richmond, Virginia, on the first of January, 1811, under the title of the Freemasons' magazine, and miscellaneous library. By an association.
• sequence_number: 41
• year: 1810
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: William G. Lyford
• author: Lyford, William Gilman (1784-1852).
• notes: Text concludes on pg. 3: "It is further requested, that the proposals may be returned to the post-office in Richmond as soon as the month of November next ... addressed to W. G. Lyford, the publisher. ... Richmond, September 1st, A.L. 5810--A.D. 1810."
  The New-Hampshire-born Lyford sold his Staunton press in May 1810 to printer Isaac Collett of Winchester and moved to Richmond; he issued this prospectus while he was employed as a journeyman printer there; this periodical never started publication and in early 1811 Lyford moved on to Norfolk to become proprietor of the Steamboat Hotel Reading Room there.
  
  
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  • William Gilman Lyford

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