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32 pages; Contents complete and secure in original printed self-wrappers with image of an eagle on front wrapper and titlepage; front wrapper rubbed, rear wrapper missing upper outer corner; several corners a but dogearred. Tables, equivalencies, and other mathematical concepts described. This edition not located in OCLC or AAS. An early American arithmetic primer which has survived inexplicably. Brothers Denis and James Sadlier, who founded the firm of D. & J. Sadlier, were born in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland (Denis in December 1816 and James in September 1821). They came to New York City in 1830 with their widowed mother, their father having died in Liverpool enroute to the U.S. They began publishing in New York City in the 1830s with a monthly serial edition of Butler's Lives of the Saints, followed in 1838 by a similar series on the Bible from plates of the 1829 Devereux edition (Utica, N.Y.). By the 1840s the firm was well enough established in New York to consider expanding its reach. James Sadlier established a branch in Montreal, and in 1846 was married there to Mary Anne Madden, born in County Cavan, Ireland, who became a well-known and prolific author, writing under the name Mrs. J. Sadlier. The company continued to grow through the 1850 as the Catholic population of the U.S. and Canada increased through immigration. In 1853 the publisher and bookseller John Doyle left for California, and the Sadliers purchased his stock and rights. In 1857 the firm acquired the American Celt, a weekly newspaper founded by Thomas d'Arcy McGee, and changed the name to the New York Tablet. Many of Mrs. J. Sadlier's novels were serialized in the Tablet. Other writers who contributed were McGee himself and Orestes Brownson, after his Review ceased publication in 1864. James and Mary Anne Sadlier returned to New York from Montreal in 1860 to assist Denis, possibly because the Tablet needed their talents and energies. In addition to being noted for its editions of the Scriptures and for publishing translations of devotional works by leading figures of the church in Europe such as Orsini, the firm also began a line of Catholic school texts, including the Metropolitan Readers. In all, from the 1830s to the late 1890s, a total of 652 D. & J. Sadlier imprints appeared, the best known being the Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Ordo.
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