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    The Dawn Of English Bookselling.

    olbion , ' Dray ton writes , in 1619 , to Drumm ' ond in this «^ b . _ a __ a _> ¦ k strain ^ ¦ w—h , if m m m m : '« ¦ I m thank * *< - » Tb / Tm *» * Am , you j ¦ i ¦ *^ ¦••¦* . , y my ^ r dear ' - ™ b » ^^ ¦ ¦ , sweet —• " - » — ¦¦» -b » - ¦ — ¦¦ Drum —• - « b ¦ . — -

    mohd , for your good opinion of * ' Polyolbion . " I have done twelve books more , that is , from the eighteenth book ¦ which was Kent ¦ - ( if - ¦>¦— you »¦ ¦ note it )

    x » s- kw k ^ *¦¦* i / waavi ^ + ** ~\ r •_ * , * —u— nv ^^ ** » - »« - _ . — — _ - < --- *¦ - * - ^ ^ - - — —— b -w — j » - * -- / , j ' all the _ . east parts and north to the pbI river * of pife Tweed * bbpb > ^ h ; but it lieth by me , for the booksellers and I are in termsthey are a vf 1 of base knaves mjv

    \ 1 J . tV / HllO j , Ul r kKsV Uil V ^ company V XL L / MIXX T \_ * Jfc . ^^ m » kjv » -v-v * * v ^ - > kj , £ whom I scorn and kick at . ' The second part of this ponderous undertaking was published in

    1622 , and its preface is inscribed , in seeming desperation , * to any that will read it . ' He complains of the cold reception the former , part of his work 4 k & JVb met ¦» withand ¦ that he ¦ not « bw only ¦¦ b failed to

    receive W W ^ ar p ¦¦ - » the " cp f ^ v _ r V encouragement » —b V ~ - , m "fc . —A . A ^ v ^ »_» - —h •«¦«^ W »* which * *^ , _ ^_ w v his - —— , friends A / ^^ ^ " ^ ^^ pre ^ ^ - dicted , but was subjected to base detraction . < j Such ^* ^ _„ , « V—fe a Tl ry cloud v ¦ ' ¦ ^ - /^ M / he f n ^ mS ¦ ¦ laments pW ry - ~ n »^ p » —¦ fc—¦ w ^ pp *^ h * hath —p ^ w mr ¦> <¦ the bjt p —» —» ——p- devil — —* ^ p ^ - ^^ m drawn ¦* - —»* b » b » i ™ ¦ v ***^ p ^ ^^^ ^^ — , * ^

    over the world ' s judgment . Some of the stationers that had the selling of the first part of this I poem , because it went not so fast away in _ selling as some of their beastland abominable trash ( a

    shame both to our language y and our nation ) , have despightfully left out the epistle to the readers , and so have cousened . the buyers with imperfect

    books . ' If authors persisted in writing unsaleable stuff , it was rather too much to expect that the bookseller would stick at a trine to get rid of

    w ^ hat was to him so much lumber . S The accession of James I . to the throne of j land reallthe commencement of what

    i has Eng been was aptly termed y the pedantic epoch . The S reign of Charles I . was not much better , for , what a ? with Tirit . li intestine int , p » stinp > Hissp dissensions » nsinTis . tTi the ft onl nnlv y literature "literati ! rfi w wh ^ hi i ch ch

    , the booksellers found to * go ' was controversial I pamphlets on the burning topics of the day . The ! Government found it a very difficult matter to

    t ' suppress the t 1 literature * l * j A so called TIT into * J _ existen ^__ * J _ qe , for t * I pedlars and chap-men disseminated large quanti-! ties almost before the authorities knew of the

    ! existence of the same . A bookseller occasionally got locked up , but this process only whetted his zeal and increased his future attempts at dodging

    and subterfuge . In 1637 , the Star Chamber issued a decree I which ran to thfs effect : — ' No haberdasher of small waresiron-chandlershopkeeper

    or any other , person monger or persons , whatsoever , , not , having served seven years' apprenticeship ta the j trade of a bookseller , printer , or a bookbinder ,

    I shall , within the city or suburbs of London , or in any other corporation , market-town , or elsewhere , 9 receive , take , or buy , to barter , sell again , change ,

    1 II or or do r \ n away awav with with any anv Bibles Bibles . , Testaments Testaments , . Psalm Fsalm--1 books , primers , A . B . c . ' s , almanacks , or other book or 1 books whatsoever , upon pain of forfeiture of all such 1 i books Vinnlrs so sn received r p > . p . fiivp . rl . boug Vinncrht ht . or or taken talc p . n as as aforesaid aforftsaid .

    and such other , punishment , of the parties so , ! " offending as by this Court or the ... High Commission Court respectivelas the several causes

    | shall require , shall be thoug y , ht meet . ' If this remarkable edict has not been repealed , are not a large number of drapers and others indictable ?

    The Thfi year vp . ar 1640 1 fi 40 was was an an eventful fivftntful one one in in the the annals of bookselling as it was in the history of I this ^* rflh ^ k ^ phwT country ^^^ ^^ T ^¦ ^^ ^ ^ ** ^ fc . V The ^ . ^ ^ *• ^ - ^ greatest P ^ S ^^ ^^^* W ^^ ^^ ^«» ^»» event ^ f c ^ » ' ^¦ p ^ ^ b « v ^ ^^ with - - w ^ ^ p ^ v— - ^ which » » — . v «*• ^ . r * ¦ we » » ' ^ . ^

    ( j are just now concerned was the formation of a I I bookseller very remarkable , George collection Thomason . of ^ pamp 'Israeli hlets has by deal a t I with «» 4 » this Wr matter pretty exhau 1 stivelybut . ¦ we may

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    collecting ^ p ^ p ^ A ^ l-f p ^ « j & ^^ - ^^ cop ' . ies ¦* »« ^ of P ^ pV . all ^ Pi' ^ P'r f ^ «« pamp -Ipfc f ^ r ^ T ^^ . . mpffB hlets , *¦ p ^ p ^ «« d « ~^ having p ^ p ^ p » p ^ * A # ¦* ^ . * -fc * p ^^ p * relation »» p ^ ^ p ^ HPK ^ P- » p— ^ " ^ P ^ " ^ P to ^ p ^ this l / Ul » civil t / lVll . war WiU , , the tXltJ X result t 3 » UAl » being KfVlllg ' about tlUUUl 30 OU ., UWU 000

    , piepes accompanied , . uniformly by 20 bound folio volumes in 2 ^ 000 of volumes catalogue and . '

    The Dawn Of English Bookselling.

    and ana This with witn collection the tne aid aia was of or made faithful taitniui with servants servants the utmost . . At At secrecy first first . -J as

    the volumes were completed , they were buried , in . boxes boxes . . As As the tne numb number er incre increased ased this trns metnod method wQo was

    no longer feasible . After constant removals the Thomason volumes hit in upon his the wareh ingenious < 5 uses in plan the of form placing of

    -tables jII round the j . ¦ room covered with * ^ canvas . After Mipft many vicissitudes p ^ p * pb besides r in remaining pipb riK in the

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    purchased , , by George III . ; it is now in the British Museumand forms an enduring PMBPPta pBat ^ PBto ^ V monument to the

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    occasion this iirm ' s excellent ' Guide to Oxford ' has been commended in these pages . Its brevity and yet comprehensive descriptions

    and and its its excellent excellent arrangement arrangement are aro as as note nnfp - worthy as ever in the issue of the twenty-sixth thousand of the book .

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    W . J . R ,. . Cotton , author of ' Imagination' and other poems . It mainly consists of three parts , in which he treats f B »_ of rf - The VJfc Birth and Home

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    with with a a prayer nravfir . . This This we w « g p- ive ivp . in in full full , ainnp since it if , will forcibly convey to the reader the nature of the work .

    God Lies , in all Whose the good great that hand mortals oP power prize , On In our mercy good keep Queen her Thy good blessings and wise shower . ,

    Unite Unite Give Save her her her her more realm realm from years , trouble o o vv ercome erco of peaceful , grief the the , strife aferifo and life pain ; ;

    Discord that makes , her people twain , . Thou knowe ¦¦ st what for T man UtXA is best wJfcJ

    Would bJBp * ' To ' "pib ' w * us anpaB keep aV A it *¦** V V eeems Vfept ^ the ^ T % f w W troubled bV d « vp ^ V longer vpf ^ p ^ bi bbJLbp world reign A W ^ J at ^ pr ^^ rest ^^ 1 ^ . — A better ne ' er can live again .

    From Mr . John Heywood . —* Saving and Growing Money , ' by William Relton . The pages of this pamphlet contain advice respecting- thrift and

    method method in in money irtonev transactions transaotinns . Mr TVlr . Kelton Pulton has had twenty-three years * experience as an accountant and his advice is throughout practical and sensible . ¦

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1887, page 816, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081887/page/14/