Transcriber's Note
The Book Cover has been constructed by the transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.
Sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.
Both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants of many words occur in this book. All have been retained.
This book has some older spellings or grammatical constructions, which have been retained. Though published Philadelphia 1878, parts of the book date from 1856, and would thus appear to pre-date modern American spelling conventions. (See note on the Catalogue advertisements which were placed after the Index.)
Any illustration which interrupted a paragraph was moved to a more convenient location, between paragraphs.
There is some discrepancy between the TOC and the book's layout. Some rationalization has been attempted.
'Blank work' appears to refer to blank book-keeping books sold by stationers for use in business offices.
Pages 18-19, 67: Derome also appears as De Rome. (Index: Derome)