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    Mr. Alexander Hay. Mr. Alexander Hay, fo...

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    Sir Robert Kane. The death is announced ...

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    Lord Lamingtojn. We regret to announce t...

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    Stated A In New A Cablegram Publishing F...

    Department of Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston , Searle & RivingtonLimited . Held in the

    highest esteem by , his employers as well as by his confreresandindeedby all who know

    him , as well for , his business , , as for his sterling personal qualities , Mr . Sutton ' s retirement

    must for a long time to come be felt , we may truly say , as a personal loss by those who have been so long and so pleasantly associated with

    him in business life . It was the desire of the firm to mark their appreciation of his services by giving a farewell dinner to Mr . Sutton

    but % J CJ at his own wish the idea was abandoned , . On Thursday 4 / evening t ^_ » last , however — , the

    assistants at St Dunstan ' n House presented him with an illuminated address accompanied with a handsome stationery caseappropriately

    inscribedas a token of th «/ eir sincere , i L X X . esteem c / and appreciation A A . , . The presentation « - was made ¦

    in a graceful speech by Mr . Emden , and Mr . some Sutton interesting responded reminiscences in feeling terms concerning , and gave the

    early days and growth » r of the firm . Mr . Sutton C 3 J is a most successful amateur rose-grower , and

    when , during the rose season , any happy or sad event - ~ m * - has occurred in the families F ^ M of i his em 1 -

    ployers _____ , rarel y indeed . . _ was a basket __ , ~*^ ^_*» ^ of _ ^_ ^_ T ~ the ~ » V loveliest roses absent , and there was no need to

    Mr ask . where Sutton they and came Mrs . from Sutton . In a heartil long ami y wishing happy life among their flowers and plants in their

    new home in Shropshire , we are sure we express the feelings of all who know him , and that includes the representatives of most of the

    book , music , and other export and general publishers at home and in the colonies . Important Sale of Books , MSS ., and

    Autographs . —Messrs . Sotheby , Wilkinson and M ^ B ^ V ^^^™ Hod »»^ ——» —^ — — ge VV ^ h ^^ have ^^ ^~ ™^ ~^ ^^ concluded ^ " ^ ^ — — - — -n — —* - —r —» an — —w B - important « . a ^ ^ ^ . ' * ^ ^^ % ^ V » _ t ^^ sal "k . ^^ ^ V —I e m | *

    of books , MSS ., and autographs from various libraries , including autograph MSS ., poems ,

    and Tenn letters son of Charles the poet Dickens Moore and , Sir Lord Walter Nelson Scott , . Many y of the , lots were of , special l literarv

    interest . The items worthy of note were as follows : Octavo— 'Dancing Master / with directions for dancing and times for the treble

    violin , rare , 1716 - £ T > ( Ellis ) . l iEsop's Fabulous Tales ¦ ' compiled in Scottish ~^ pr v metre

    -------- > , _ - b -- . , ^— ^_ - —_ - - ^ __ — ^ ^^ p ^_ ^ h mm 1 ^^^ ^^^ ^^ b ^^^^ Gelli and ' now s ' Fearfull Eng _____ lished _¦ _ _ Fansies __ , black _¦ __ . of letter _ . the , Florentine 157 V , and

    being Cooper -r r K very , ' black W rare— letter £ (> ' , ( Hazlitt in one ) . vol Ainsworth ., the firs ' s t

    1 Rook —— —g ^ wood / illustrated * by Cruikshank ^ ' ' ^^ ' ^* " ~ ^^ ^ — " ^™ ^^^ £ —^ ^^ 7 ^ h ^ r . ^ 17 ^ i ^ . * ^ s ¦* . ^ 6 —¦ — ( •» i ^ . !¦¦ j ^^ h . ( «^ p Pickering ^ ¦¦ ¦ i —¦ _ 4 ^— — ^^ ¦¦ — ^^ i ^^™ ^^^ b ^ ) » ^ . ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦ America ¦ i ^^ ¦ ¦ — ^^^ — ™ "i ^_» ^ ^ . ^ Varthema ^ ^^»^™ ¦!¦ " —if ^* p ^ ^^^ ^ v —¦ ^^^ b ^ y

    ( Ludovico di ) , Itinerario nello Egitto , nella Soria nella Arabia deserta felice — / < fec . Et al

    presente , agiontovi alcune Isole - , novamente ritrovate , ' Vinegia , 1535— £ 13 ( Glendinning ) .

    Burton ' s ' Arabian Nights / 16 vols ., printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only— £ 25 . 10 s . ( Rae ) . Bartsch ' a

    'Le Peintre Graveur — £ 9 . 108 . ( Quaritch ) . A comp JL lete Pack of Cards , 'representing Ml t ? the

    principal victories ^ and events in the reign of Queen Anne ; the King and Queen of Hearts are Prince George of Denmark and the Princess

    Anna Clubs Sop are hia Charles of Hanover III . , of King Spain and and Queen Queen of Anne of England , and King and Queen of

    JDiamonda are victor Atnadeus of Savoy and

    the . Princess Royal of Prussia , a few cards , | sli c The rni ghtl . y Humourist rr wormed — j _ / * £ 4 22 j vols ( Long coloured _ ) . Cruikshank i * ' s

    £ ' 17 . 15 s . ( Sabin ) . Grimm . ' , s ' German plates Popular — Stories / etchings ^ by Cruikshankscarce •— £ 30 +

    ( B . F . Stevens ' ) . Firs V t edition of , Cruikshank " ^ * ¦ ' s ' Table almost Book / fresh complete when in the original 12

    parts £ 17 , ( B . F . Stevens as ) . as First issued edition , 184 of 5 De

    Foe s ' Robinson Crusoe / plate and map , 1719 , fine copy— £ 42 ( Harvey ) . First edition

    ori of g Charles inal parts Dickens as issued ' s ' — Tal £ 12 e of ( Bennett Two Cities ) . First , ' in

    «^ j X \ f —* —— - "jiv edition _ of Goldsmith ' s ' Vicar of Wakefield ' 2 vols ., fine copy in calf extrascarceSalis , -

    bury , 1763— £ 44 ( Robson ) . La , Fontaine , ' s ' Contes et Nouvelles en Vers / the

    Fermiers-Generaux edition— £ 26 ( Wilson ; . First edition of Captain Marryat ' s ' Pirate / 1836— £ 4 . 2 s . ( id .

    ¦ ( Bain fc * ) . Sir ^*^ * - W m ^ tt " ^ . Scott ^^*_ d - ' s Waverley ^^^^ p ^ novels ^ , first editions— £ 8 . 5 s . (^ Young ) . First . __ edition — „ — _ of - *^ ^

    Shelley ' s ' Zastrozzi / a romance , presentation copy from the author , 1810— £ 17 ( Bain ) .

    Quarto . —America . Hamor ( Ralphe ) , 'A true Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia , together with a relation of ... the christening _ _ _

    <^ 7 of Powhatan's daughter , and her marriage with an Englishman / 1615— £ 47 ( Quaritch ) .

    ' A Declaration of the demeanor and carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh , ' fine large copy with the rare 1-af A before the title , 1618 ; this

    tract contains the text of King James's commission to Raleigh for his last voyage to the Orinoco — t 2 . 12 « .

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    234 The Publishers' Circular March , l 89 o

    In Jhetuoi /'Iam

    In JHetuoi / 'iam

    Mr . John Frederick Dwerryhouse . Mr . John Frederick Dwerryhouse died on

    February 22 after a short illness , aged fifty . He was a member of the staff of Messrs . Terry & Co . for twenty-one jear . s , and was much esteemed both hi business and private circles .

    Mr. Alexander Hay. Mr. Alexander Hay, Fo...

    Mr . Alexander Hay . Mr . Alexander Hay , for nearly twenty

    years & Co book ., has -keeper just passed in the firm away of at Mess the rs . age Kirb of y fifty-four . He was well known to the trade

    and highly respected .

    Sir Robert Kane. The Death Is Announced ...

    Sir Robert Kane . The death is announced on February 17 of

    scientific he Sir was Robert a circles prominent Kane in , Dublin F . R . fi S gure . . For For in some a lit long erary chemical period and

    Academy discoveries awarded he mad him e the its Royal gold medal Hibernian . He was the author of a very valuable work on

    lhe Industrial Resources of Ireland .

    Lord Lamingtojn. We Regret To Announce T...

    Lord Lamingtojn . We regret to announce the death of Lord

    February Lamington 15 , which . He took was p the lace * Buckhurst in London ' on of

    Eng * Coningsb land . y Lord '— one Lamington of the was party the of author Young of

    printed several works in 1838 , including ) . 4 Exeter ' Poems Hall , ' or ( privately Church

    of Polemics Greece , ' , ' ' The 'Erneat Morea Vane / a poem / ' Florence , ' The State the

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/16/