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(MONTERREY—1820.) Arredondo, Joaquín de.
El Exmo. Señor Virey de
esta Nueva España Conde del Venadito se há servido remitirme la Gazeta
extraordinaria de aquel govierno del martes 29 de Agosto.
Letterpress broadside, 31
x 20 cm, signed in type by Arredondo with his manuscript paraph, and by Captain Rafael
Gonzáles (future governor of Coahuila y Texas); folds, minimal dampstaining.
Monterrey: [Samuel Bangs], 11 October 1820
[4,000/6,000]
A proclamation ordering festivities upon the resumption of the 1812 constitution—music, bells,
artillery salvos, and more. Printed by Bangs during his unusual tenure as the imprisoned
printer for the Royalist army (see above). These early Bangs imprints were printed under
extremely difficult conditions, on a small press with a limited supply of type. In this broadside,
we see one of the hallmarks of these Monterrey Bangs imprints—the frequent use of isolated
italics within words. He simply did not have enough roman type to put together a whole page of
text. Jenkins, Printer inThree Republics 20, and page 10.