Bland (Mr.) The Constellation: Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, 40pp., title with woodcut typographic device, disbound, [Foxon p.66; ESTC locates 4 copies only], 8vo, Printed, and Sold by S.Keimer, 1715.
⁂ The printer, Samuel Keimer (1688-c.1738) had a mixed career as a printer. Originally apprenticed to Robert Tookey in Threadneedle Street, he married in 1715, became a Quaker and set up a printing shop in Paternoster Row, where he produced over a dozen pamphlets for Daniel Defoe. His business failed, he was imprisoned for debt, left his wife in 1721 and embarked for Philadelphia where he again set up as a printer with Benjamin Franklin as his factotum. He was bankrupted and in 1729 fled to Barbados where he started the island's first newspaper.
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