AN EARLY NEVADA IMPRINT THE most difficult of all American imprints to locate are those issued from the earliest presses of our far western states, and probably the rarest are the pamphlets printed in Nevada Territory. The earliest printing there was at Genoa, in Carson Valley, where on December 18, 1858, Alfred James and W. L. Jernogan issued the first number of the Territorial Enterprise. In November, i85g, this newspaper was moved to Carson City, and the year following to Virginia City. In December, 1860, a press, the second in Nevada, was set up at Carson City by Lewis & Sewall, who established there a newspaper, the Silver Age. Of the early numbers of this rare paper virtually no specimens are known to exist at the present time. In A Check List of Nevada Imprints, compiled under the supervision of Mr. Douglas C. McMurtrie (Chicago, ig3g), only four titles are listed for the years i85g-i86i inclusive, and one of these has not been located. For the year 1861 only two titles are listed, both of which were acts approved in November of that year. Neither of these has the place of publication or printer's name on the title; and in each of these entries, Mr. McMurtrie queries both the date and Carson City as the place of publication. While sorting a large collection of pamphlets relating to the Civil War, formerly in the possession of that sagacious collector, the late Daniel Parish, Jr., and now owned by The New-York Historical Society, two copies of an hitherto un- described Nevada imprint were found. This octavo pamphlet of twelve pages may be the earliest specimen of typography, excepting the newspaper, that came from a press in Carson City. Of the two copies in the Society's library, one is uncut and unopened. The second is a presentation copy from the Territorial Governor of Nevada, James W. Nye (whose mes- — 124 —