| Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Thomas Baldwin |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | General |
| Genre(s) | Reference Gazetteer |
| Publisher | Lidsay and Blackiston |
| Publication date | Early 19th Century |
| Media type | Single hardback volume |
The Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer written in the English language is one of the earliest gazetteers in the world and most certainly in the United States of America. This book is precious not only for containing within its pages an alphabetical list of most of the known cities, countries, ports, counties, and a long etcetera, but also for the population of those places at the time this book was printed. All that makes this one-volume book a most valuable document for the historian specialist and amateur.
There have been different editions of this book since the early years of the 19th century, though it’s possible to consider the Sixth Edition, printed in Philadelphia by Lidsay and Blackiston in 1847 with circa 650 pages, to be the most comprehensive of them all.