can realize its importance and the growth of this comparatively new hobby. Author's, The, Hand-Book: a Guide to the Art and System of Publishing on Commission. 8vo, London, 1844. Author's, The, Printing and Publishing Assistant. A Guide to the Printing, Correcting, and Publishing New Works. Crown 8vo, London, Authors' and Booksellers' Co-operative Publishing 1845. Alliance. A New Departure in Publishing. 8vo, London, 1901. Ballantyne Press, The, and its Founders, 17961908. By W. T. Dobson and W. L. Carrie. Post 4to, Edinburgh, 1909. "I once said to him, I am sorry, Sir, that you His did not get more for your, Dictionary.' answer was, Of these purchasers there is something to well. The booksellers I am sorry, too. But it was very are generous, liberalsay. Sutherland's marvellous extra-illus-minded men.' He, upon all occasions, did ample trated volumes, constantly added to by his justice to their character in this respect. He widow, are housed next to the Bodleian, a considered them the patrons of literature."Boswell's 'Johnson thing apart, only to be seen twice a week. (Napier's edition), vol. i. pp. 238-9. But Crowle's Pennant at the British Museum is more accessible, and therefore better known. Now the examination of its pages leaves one well-defined impression, and that is that when its creator found the variety of engraved views was insufficient for his ambition, or their cost was prohibitive, he engaged illustrators, topographical artists, to make drawings of buildings or copies of prints. So, granted a continuance of his zeal and means, he could become possessed of a Pennant or a Lysons extended to a greater number of volumes than that of his rivals. Clearly, therefore, when this vogue for London illustrations had advanced, it became with many a mere competition of numbers, not of interest or historic merit. I am not contending that this passion was entirely without merit, or that it has not been of great benefit to succeeding ages. It undoubtedly led to the preservation of many scraps, of interest now, but then considered of little worth. But when Crowle, for example, identifies Hogarth's 'Southwark Fair' as Bartholomew Fair, and employs an artist to copy Swertner's not rare View of London from Islington Church,' we see the disadvantage of such a collector not being a topographer. There are similar blemishes in the Crace Collection, and I anticipate that when the opportunity occurs of examining the Gardner Collection in its entirety, instances of a desire for mere numbers will be noticeable. ALECK ABRAHAMS. (To be concluded.) Blackwood, The House of.-The Early House of Blackwood. By I. C. B. Printed for private circulation. Post 4to, Edinburgh, 1900. This was intended to supply a deficiency in Mrs. Oliphant's history of the firm. Book-Auctions in England.-See 2 S. xi. 463; 5 S. xii. 95, 211, 411; 6 S. ii. 297, 417; 9 S. vi. 86, 156; 10 S. viii. 246, 266. Longman's Magazine, April, 1893.-Art. by A. W. Pollard, The First English BookSale.' Bookseller, The, Jubilee Number, Jan. 24, 1908. - Fifty Years of "The Bookseller and Bookselling.' London, 1908. Bookseller, The Successful : a Complete Guide to Success to all engaged in a Retail Bookselling....Business. 4to, London, 1905. See 10 S. v. 141, 183, Booksellers, Provincial. 242, 297, 351, 415, 492; vii. 26, 75; viii. 201; x. 141. Durham and Northumberland, 10 S. vi. 443. Hampshire. See 10 S. v. 481; vi. 31. Book-Trade Bibliography in the United States BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND Bowes (Robert).-Booksellers' Associations, Past BOOKSELLING. (See 10 S. i. 81, 142, 184, 242, 304, 342; ii. 11; v. 361.) A Ballade of Bygone Bookshops. CURLL, by the Fleet-Ditch nymphs caress'd; TONSON the Great, the Slow-to-pay; LINTOT, of Folios rubric-press'd; OSBORNE, that stood in JOHNSON'S way; Austin Dobson, art. The Two Paynes,' and Present. Printed for Private Circulation for the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland. 4to, Taunton, 1905. Brydges, Sir Egerton, 1762-1837. - A Summary Statement of the great Grievances imposed on Authors and Publishers, and the injury done to Literature, by the late Copyright Act (and other pamphlets by the same author), 1817-18. Burns & Oates, The House of.-By Wilfrid Wilberforce. 16mo, London, 1908. Catalogues. Catalogus Librorum ex variis Europæ partibus advectorum, apud Robertum Scott, Bibliopolam Regium. 4to, Londini, 1687. The first London booksellers' catalogue. Quoted from the catalogue of Mr. B. Dobell, 77, Charing Cross Road, W. Cole, John.-Bookselling Spiritualised, Books and Articles of Stationery rendered Monitors of Religion (only 40 copies printed). Scarborough, 1826. Constable, Archibald, and his Literary Correspondents. By his Son Thomas Constable. 3 vols., 8vo, Edinburgh, 1873. See appendix to vol. i. for "what may be called a catalogue raisonne by my father of the chief booksellers in Edinburgh at the end of the last [eighteenth] century." Cruden, Alexander, 1701-70.-Life, by Alexander Chalmers. This is prefixed to many of the editions of the Bible Concordance. Cruden opened a bookseller's shop under the Royal Exchange in 1732, and it was there that he composed his great work. 6 Dobson, Austin.-Eighteenth Century Vignettes (Fine-Paper Edition), Series I. contains, An Old London Bookseller' (Francis Newbery); Series II. At Tully's Head (Robert Dodsley), Richardson at Home,' The Two Paynes; Series III. Thos. Gent, Printer,' fcap. 8vo, London, 1906-7. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-64.-See Mr. W. P. Courtney's articles at 10 S. vi. 361, 402; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404, 442; viii. 124, 183, 384, 442; ix. 3, 184, 323, 463; x. 103, 243, 305, 403; xi. 62, 143, 323; xii. 63. See also Northern Notes and Queries, vol. i. Nos. 7 and 8, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. pp. 200, 234. Mr. R. Straus is preparing for publication a work on Robert Dodsley (See 10 S. xi. 428). Duff (E. Gordon).-The Printers, Stationers, and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. The Sandars Lectures at Cambridge, 1899 and 1904. Crown 8vo, Cambridge, 1906. A Century of the English Book-Trade. Short Notices of all Printers, Stationers, Booksellers and Others connected with it from the Issue of the First Dated Book in 1457 to the Incorporation of the Company of Stationers in 1557. Bibliographical Society, 1906. Has an Index of London booksellers' signs before 1558. Early Chancery Proceedings concerning Members of the Book-Trade. Article in The Library, October, 1907. | The the kingdom unless he were a member of the Company, or held some privilege or patent entitling him to print some specified work or particular class of work. Stationers were empowered to search the premises of any printer or stationer "to see that nothing was printed contrary to regulations, and, accordingly, searchers appointed to make weekly visits to printing houses, their instructions being to ascertain how many presses every printer possessed; what every printer printed, the number of each impression, and for whom they were printed; how many workmen and apprentices every printer employed, and whether he had on his premises any unauthorized person.' were A young man, starting as a bookseller, if possessed of means might purchase a stock of saleable books, and at once open a shop in some busy thoroughfare, or take up a point of vantage in one of the stalls or booths which crowded round the walls of St. Paul's. "London Bridge did not attain its fame as a resort of booksellers until the second half of the but seventeenth century; as early as 1557 William Pickering, a bookseller, whose publications consisted chiefly of ballads and other trivial things, had a shop there." "If a bookseller could procure the copy of some book or pamphlet, or maybe even a ballad, which he could enter in the register as his property, and then get printed by some friendly printer, he would have made a modest beginning; and, if this first essay happened to promise a fair sale, he might, by exchanging copies of it with other publishers for their books, at once obtain a stockin-trade." In 1598 the Stationers' Company, with a view to prevent the excessive prices of books, made a general order "that no new copies without pictures should be sold at more than a penny for two sheets if in pica, roman and italic, or in english with roman and italic; and at a penny for one sheet and a half if in brevier or long primer letter. A quarto volume of 360 pages in small type might thus cost, in sheets, two shillings and sixpence, equal to about one pound at the present day. At this rate the first folio Shakespeare, which contains nearly one thousand pages, should have cost about fourteen shillings, but the actual selling price was one pound.' Correctors for the press occupied a high position in those days. The work afforded occupation for a few scholars in the more important printing houses: 'N. & Q.' ON THE STAGE.-In Mr. Granville Barker's fine play The Voysey Inheritance,' first given at the Court Theatre on 7 Nov., 1905, Mrs. Voysey, the mother of the family, appears at the end of Act II. to be engrossed in a copy of N. & Q.' She remarks to no one in particular : "This is a very perplexing correspondence about the Cromwell family. One can't deny the man had good blood in him....his grandfather Sir Henry, his uncle Sir Oliver....and it's difficult to discover where the taint crept in.... Yes, but then how was it he came to disgrace himself so? I believe the family disappeared. Regicide is a root-and-branch curse. You must read this letter signed C. W. A.....it's quite interesting. There's a misprint in mine about the first umbrellamaker....now where was it?....(And so the dear lady will ramble on indefinitely.)" In the circumstances of the case her fragmentary remarks are admirable exboth amples of Philistine complacency and tragic irony. A. R. BAYLEY. MRS. SARAH BATTLE'S WISH ANTICIPATED The celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle," immortalized by Charles Lamb "A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game "-had been anticipated in striking degree exactly a century to the very month before it was made imperishable in print. That was in The London Magazine for February, 1821, and in a letter which appeared in Read's Weekly Journal of 11 February, 1721, giving an account of an imaginary meeting of coffee-house proprietors, called to discuss the question whether the provision of newspapers therein repaid its cost, it was written : : "Mr. Cocoa of Pall Mall says that a clean Room, a good Fire, and a sufficient Number of Looking Glasses well-fix'd, and a handy Waiter, wou'd draw Company before the News." But just ten years previously a different opinion would seem to have been entertained by some coffee-house keepers, for it was advertised in The Daily Courant of 10 January, 1711, as an obvious inducement to customers, that "Bickerstaff's Coffee-house over against Tom's Coffee-house in Great Russel - street in Covent Garden, will be open'd on Friday next being 12th Instant, where will be all Publick News and Weekly Papers." 66 ALFRED F. ROBBINS. "REVELS 22 = PARISH FESTIVALS OR FEASTS: REVEL SUNDAY.-There are not so many 'revels," in the sense of parish feasts, as there were in my young days, and such as remain are nothing like so noisy. Some continue to exist, in my native district of North-East Cornwall, and "Jacob at stow Revel " I find advertised for 9 August last in the Launceston newspapers. This took the shape in the present year of "a grand fête " at the Rectory, the proceeds being given towards buying an organ for Jacobstow Church. It was not quite like that eighty years ago, when I was a boy, for I remember well the annual "Revel Week St. Mary, a parish so close to Jacobstow as to be included among the five to which the entries for a cob and pony show at the recent Jacobstow Revel were confined. This used to take place on a Sunday in September, and people came from far and near to see their "Mary Week" friends on Revel Sunday," when, after morning service at the church, there were scenes of much drunkenness and debauchery in the village. The next day was always devoted to a hunt, which was taken part in by the farmers, the labourers joining in the fun as best they could. But the Jacobstow Revel of the present time, with its Rectory string band, afternoon tea, and evening display of fireworks, is a very great improvement on all that. R. ROBBINS. A MODEST AUTHOR.-In 1776 William Le Tans'ur of Cambridge published a tract of 16 pp. in four-line stanzas, entitled 'The Christian Warrior Properly Armed; or, The Deist Unmasked.' At the foot of the title-page, before the date, is this couplet : This Book, tho' but for Sixpence sold, 1s double worth its Weight in Gold. It may be a rare book, but I doubt its being A. RHODES. a valuable one. AMERICAN MISER'S WILL.-The following may prove interesting to your readers who delve in queer wills; I found it in an old paper the other day : "Barksville, Ky., May 10.-The will of Dr. Everett Wagner, of this county, has been probated Dr. Wagner was a miser and had accumuhere. self of sound mind, he says: lated considerable property. After declaring him "I am about to die, and my relatives, who have heretofore shunned me, cannot now do too much for me. Almost every one of them has visited me Goethe, Thackeray, Richardson, Fielding, since I have been sick, and given me a gentle hint Sterne, Addison, Voltaire, Bacon; V. that they would like to have a small trinket of some kind by which to remember their beloved Artists, Ancient and Modern; VI. Amongst relative. On account of their former treatment the Musicians. I am anxious to learn and their quiet hints, I now take this method of whether the authorship is known and satisfying their desire.' whether they have been reprinted. I should also like to know whether the six dialogues complete the series. I have no He then makes the following bequests, each formally set out in a separate section: To my beloved brother Napoleon Bonaparte Wagner my left hand and arm'; to George Washington Wagner, another brother, his right hand and arm; to his brother Patrick Henry Wagner his right leg and foot; to his brother Charles Gardner Wagner his left leg and foot; to his nephew C. H. Hatfield his nose; to his niece Hettie Hatfield his left ear, and to his niece Clara Hatfield his right ear; to his cousin Henry Edmonds his teeth; to his cousin John Edmonds his gums. The will then continues : "It grieves me to have to part with myself in this manner, but then, what is a gift without a sacrifice I am dying with consumption, and the end will soon be here. I will at once remove myself to Nashville, where I will die in the hospital.' "For the purpose of dissecting his body Dr. Everett leaves 1,000 dollars. The residue of the estate goes to public charities. He was worth 12,000 dollars, and the will is dated March 1, 1888. A codicil dated March 3 gives to my beloved sister-in-law Mrs. C. G. Wagner my liver."" SCANNELL O'NEILL. South Omaha, Nebraska. volume of Once a Week later than 1868, SWIFT AT HAVISHAM.-A letter from Swift to Ambrose Philips, which appears in Nichols's Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century,' was written, according to the printed version, on 20 Oct., 1708, from a place called Havisham, where Swift was staying as the guest of a Mr. Collier, who had been one of Philips's WE must request correspondents desiring in-schoolfellows at Shrewsbury. Subsequent formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. Queries. CHINA AND JAPAN: THEIR DIPLOMATIC INTERCOURSE.—In what language or languages are treaties couched and diplomatic correspondence conducted between China and Japan? Or does it happen that, owing to the primarily ideographic character of the alphabet, the same text may be read indifferently in Chinese and in Japanese, in the same way as with us 45-27 may be understood and read aloud in any of our European languages? H. GAIDOZ. 22, Rue Servandoni, Paris (VI). 'DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD 2 IN ONCE A WEEK.'-Six contributions under this title appeared in Once a Week during October, November, and December, 1868 :-I. Between Lords Palmerston and Brougham; II. D'Orsay, Jerrold, and a Stranger; III. Shakespeare, Thackeray, and a Critic; IV. Johnson, Macaulay, Boswell, Goldsmith, letters from Swift indicate that Havisham was in Kent. I am unable to find the place-na..e It seems Havisham in Kent or elsewhere. possible that the transcriber was at fault, and that it is a misreading of some similar name, such as Adisham, Faversham, Harrietsham, or Lewisham. For any help towards identifying Havisham Swift's host I should be greatly obliged. or F. ELRINGTON BALL. 10A, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. BANISHED COVENANTERS.-In his Traditions of the Covenanters the Rev. Robt. Simpson writes of John Matheson, who was banished to New Jersey, and afterwards returned : "There is a pretty large account of his sufferings and wanderings written by himself, which is at present in the possession of a family in Galloway." Presumably this is the account published by John Calderwood in Dying Testimonies.' The Rev. R. Simpson adds : "Many such accounts, composed by individual sufferers in those trying times, are doubtless in the country, where they are kept as precious memorials.' It may be noted that at least one repatriated exile (not a Covenanter) printed an account of his wanderings. This was Peter Williamson, kidnapped and sold to an American planter. He returned to Scotland about 1765, published his story, and went from town to town selling the book (see Blackwood, May, 1848). C. MONTPELLIER AS STREET-NAME.-Can you tell me the origin of so many streets and squares being named Montpellier (spelt in different ways)? These names appear constantly in towns such as Cheltenham, Brighton, and London, the houses having been built at the beginning of last century. H. L. HANSARD. Stanbridge, Romsey, Hants. SHORT STORY c. 1892.-I should feel grateful to any of your readers who could assist me in my search for a short story which appeared in one of the magazines circa 1892. It was a humorous description of furnishing either a houseboat or a holiday bungalow. I read it either in January or February, 1893. The title unfortunately Please reply direct. escapes me. LOUIS WEIGHTON. 62, Fentiman Road, S.W. POTHINUS AND BLANDINA.-In reading that carefully written and very charming book of Mr. J. W. Taylor's, 'The Coming of the Saints' (p. 258), I am startled to find him speaking of the prison of Pothinus and Blandina as having been in a crypt, still preserved, under the Hospice de l'Anquitaille at Lyons. There is no mention of this hallowed spot in Murray, or in Hare, who draw the attention of confiding travellers to the Church of St. Martin d'Ainay, where the dungeons of the two saints are shown. Of course they may have been in prisons oft and various, and I should like to know what is the likelihood of their having been incarcerated on the hill of Fourvière. Mr. Taylor does not vouch for the trustworthi ness of some of his matter concerning the Hospice and its crypt; but I do not gather that he hesitates as to the site of the prison of Pothinus and Blandina. ST. SWITHIN. MRS. QUARME.-What was the maiden name of the wife of George Quarme, Commissioner of Excise, who died in June, 1775? Was she a Miss Roach or Le Roche, sister of Lady Echlin ? I believe George Quarme was the brother of Robert Quarme, Usher of the Green Rod, mentioned by MR. Edinburgh are face to face with the problem A. B. BEAVEN at 10 S. xii. 377. HORACE BLEACKLEY. CANNON BALL HOUSE, EDINBURGH : SEBASTIEN DAVILONERT. Lovers of Old that the preservation of its remains can be attained only through two channels: (1) an intimate knowledge of what is worth preserving; (2) a means of providing the needful cash and power to purchase, on the part of some responsible body, at a fair price immediately the property is in the market. Recently paragraphs have appeared in the local papers advertising the fact that the Cannon Ball House, Castlehill, was to be put up for sale at an upset price of 2,500l. With a view to working up public interest, the history of the house was mysteriously garbled. It has no authenticated history. |