| Item Description: | "Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest, Charles Thomson, secretary." - Followed by: In Council [of Massachusetts], July 17th, 1776. Ordered, that the Declaration of Independence be printed; and a copy sent to the ministers of each parish .. In the name, and by order of the Council, R. Derby, Jun. president. A true copy attest, John Avery, dep. sec'y. - English Short Title Catalog, W14401. - Evans, 15163. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1955. - Printed area measures 48.2 x 32.1 cm. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - Walsh, M.J. "Contemporary Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence." Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43, 13 |
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