140 HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN DERBYSHIRE. 
bibliographers. As, however, Mr. Cantrell’s book (a small octavo 
of only 62 leaves) was printed in London (although dated 
** Derby : Lady-Day, 1716,”) it is very probable that the resources 
of the Derby archi-typographer, supposing him to have been in 
business then, were unequal to “ book-work.” We must look 
elsewhere, therefore, for a starting-point, and the only trustworthy 
evidence I have as yet been able to discover, is the publication, of 
which the following is a reduced fac-simile of the first-page or 
Vol. I NuMB. Io. 
THE 
DERBY Poft-Man, 
OR A 
Collection of the moft material Occurences, 
Foreign and Domeftick ; 
Together with 
An Account op TRA JIT 
To be continued Weekly. 
Thurfday, February 2. 1720. 
DERBY: Printed by S Hodgkinfon near St. Warburg's Church : 
where Advertifements and Letters of Correfpondents are taken 
in, and all manner of Books Printed [Price Three-half-pence, ] 
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