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sions and the heading with fewer leads.’’ It seems to me most 
probable that the edition without their imprint was struck off first, 
and then finding that there was a demand for the broadside they 
struck off another edition, to which they added their imprint and 
improved its appearance by inserting additional leads between the 
head lines. . 
The edition without their imprint is in double column and 
measures on the print 11% inches in breadth by 155% inches in 
length. A copy of it is to be found in the library of the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society, and of the Essex Institute at Salem. It is 
reproduced in facsimile in Bryant and Gay’s Popular History of the 
Onited States, New York, 1879, Vol. iii, p. 482. 
The other edition, with the added imprint of John Gill and Powars 
and Willis, is reproduced in facsimile in Winsor’s Varrative and 
Critical History of America, Vol. vi, p. 267. It is likewise in 
double column and measures on the print 117% inches in breadth by 
175~@ inches in length. The line for line transcript of the head 
lines and colophon is as follows : 
In Congress, July 4, 1776 | A Declaration | by the Representa- 
tives of the | United States of America; | In General Congress 
Assembled. |. . . . | America: Boston, Printed by John Gill, and 
Powars and Willis, in Queen Street. 
A peculiarity of the Gill and Powars and Willis editions is that 
in the attestation Charles Thomson’s name is spelt with a ‘‘ p.”’ 
A contemporaneous edition was also printed by E. Russell at 
Salem, in Massachusetts, which corresponds with Ford’s No. 103, 
and of which torn and imperfect copies are in the Emmet Collec- 
tion, in the New York Public Library (EM. 1532) and in the 
Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr. Green in- 
forms me that this broadside measures on the print 125 inches in 
breadth by 187g inches in length. 
The line for line transcript of the head lines and colophon of 
this edition is as follows: 
In | Congress, | July 4, 1776 | A Declaration | by the | Repre- 
sentatives | of the | United States of America, | In General Con- 
gress Assembled. |. . . . | Salem, Massachusetts-Bay: Printed by 
E. Russell ; by Order [torn]. 
