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      I 642 The Publishers' Circular August 1,...

      I 642 The Publishers' Circular August 1 , ^

      188 Fxeet Street, August 1, 1883 .

      188 Fxeet Street , August 1 , 1883 .

      The Newspaper Trade, In Which A Large Nu...

      THE newspaper trade , in which a large number of our readers are interested , seeing that in —¦ country ^ - ^ districts ^___ ___ - _ the bookseller often supplies the newspaper just as the vendor ——¦ of the

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      not they serve do , their their purpose commercial to pay morality for it . will I , for be one purer , never than hope it ia to at see present them . abandon The * dime this novel position suits , that tiiec aiuw America m y ^

      purses nurses supplied and and wi . their their th this tastes tastes ug , , ly and and and Huropean European ill-printed authors authors production aro aro sacrificed sacrificed of an * without without advanced any anv civilisation scruple scruple , , / You say ^ , < ^ U % a to f & ^ loaf Vk ^^ . f J % 111 being P ^^ ^^ afilVhA & Allow ^ b All betteT W ^ T ^^ ^* " ^ "IbbT « - ¦ ¦ than Vj ^ »<« |» V to * no ^ bbbbB ^^ bread V ^ BT «!¦» ^^ t « 1 WV ^ Bl that it ^ H , * it ^ V j if woul V !» « ^ BbV what " |* Vh 1 ¦ d W ^ be f ^^ ^ bb . % expedient "h ^ ^>^ Bt V « T woul ^ B ^ ^ B > m ^ ^ . / 11 . im d «^ to b ^ ^^ iel -11 accept BBpJBV d -j however 1 V what ¦*¦ _ -W VAbF bbh American much ¦ « b ^ bb- ^ b ^ * bt bbi I b- ib— - - ^ publishers little 1 , ' . ii . l ^ . it It- bo KA are . w WOlU 0 1 * W MM II II I

      saddled yield . ' with the obligation mo repea to admit American they editions of y European , works into , or Europe , the , co " , jon I would be bought at a ruinous price for ushowever fair on the surface it might look . Aft « ° — ^ h © I

      t wri dropped vuruuuvu ter consent . i its irO bone uuuo to for x injure \ m ; the uiu the shadow miouw Eng w l thereof moi ish publisher cui . . Nothing x , ^ vi' , iiiJiij he will should diiuliam find be mo himself accepted nuuepuouk in the by k > j . . tho u same ** u English ^ # u p li » .- g ht and writer with write . tfte exC tarheT ® a , : ^ » ^ * ho * H | l

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1883, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081883/page/2/