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Title sheet, 14 individual broadsides, 1 printed announcement. Broadsides 20½"x15½", set in folding blue cloth portfolio with inner paper flaps and cover lettered in gilt. 3 copies of the prospectus laid in. One of 200 sets printed by various fine letterpress printers.

Produced by Page Smith to celebrate the American Bicentennial. Broadsides include: "John Dickinson 1768" by Bert Clarke at the Press of A. Colish; "Franklin" by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge; "Jefferson On Tyranny" by Bert Clarke at the Press of A. Colish; "Chief Logan's Revenge" by William Everson at the Lime Kiln Press at Santa Cruz; "A Farmer in the Maryland Gazette" by Katherine and Sherwood Grover at Grace Hoper Press in Aptos, CA; "Declaration of Independence" by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press, San Francisco, with initial drawn by George Shakespeare, with color added by hand; "My Lords" title blind-stamped with second half-sized red paper overlay on Fabriano mouldmade paper, by Mark Lansburgh, At the Sign-of-the-Albion-press, Colorado Springs; "Abigail Adams" by Cheryl Miller and Kathy Walkup and Jaime Robles at the Five Trees Press, San Francisco; "A Time to Preach..." by Henry Morris at the Bird and Bull Press, North Hills, PA; "A Bill of Rights" by Ward Ritchie; "Jonathon Mayhew" by Jack Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco; "Isaiah Thomas" by the Stinehour Press in Eric Gill's Perpetua Type; "Tom Paine" by Thomas Whitridge at the Didymus Press, San Francisco; "The Military" by Adrian Wilson with Maria Poythress Epes at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Lacks two broadsides "Notice" by Eisenman and "John Adams" by Godine, as issued. The two lacking broadsides were never completed.