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In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : portrait (engraving)
"Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest, C. Thomson, secretary."
Printed from the same setting of type as Evans 15157, but with a copper-plate engraved, oval portrait of John Hancock at head. "There is more than slight evidence to favor London as the place of printing."--Walsh, q.v.
Text in two columns, with fifty-eight lines in the first and a double rule between.
Walsh, M.J. "Contemporary broadside editions of the Declaration of Independence." Harvard Library bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43, 17
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43202).