Vol. 1 of Boston SDUK series presented by Daniel Webster
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The American lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster, one founders of the Boston SDUK, and a contributor to thias book, sent this copy of the first volume published by the Boston SDUK to John S. Jenness. The inscription was written in by the recipient.
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Daniel Webster, Nathan Hale, Jacob Bigelow and Others Found the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowlege

1829
Vol. 1 American Library of Useful Knowledge
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Beneath the publisher's name, the title page stated that the volume was printed on the Steam Press of Nathan Hale, one of the founders of the Boston SDUK. In 1829 Hale was the first in Boston to print using steam power.
In 1829  Daniel WebsterNathan HaleJacob BigelowWilliam Ellery ChanningEdward EverettNathaniel L. Frothingham, and Abbott Lawrence and others founded the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, modelled after the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge launched by Henry Brougham and others in London. The Boston society sponsored lectures and published the American Library of Useful Knowledge. When I wrote this entry in December 2020 I was unable to determine whether more than two volumes of that had been published. Compared to the SDUK the publishing program of the Boston organization appears to have been modest. They continued to publish into the 1840s, but how many works they published has not been easy to determine.

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