Shakespeare in Lexington Bookstores – by 1811

From the Kentucky Gazette, July 2, 1811

NEW BOOKS

Just Received by

Johnson & Warner,

At their Bookstore Opposite the Branch Bane, Main Street, Lexington, the following new and valuable

BOOKS

Which we will, as usual, sell low – viz.

. . . [Excerpts from lengthy list.]

Smith’s Wealth of Nations, 2 vols.

. . .

Swift’s Evidence

. . .

Campaigns of Bonaparte

. . .

Homer’s Odyssey (gilt 2 vol.)

Ditto Iliad

Shakespeare’s Plays, 3 vol.

. . .

The Book of Martyrs, with a Christian plea against persecution

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