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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st October 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1054

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    • 188 Fleet Stbeet : October 1, 1886.
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      188 Fleet Stbeet : October 1, 1886.

      188 Fleet Stbeet : October 1 , 1886 .

      T710rty-Nine Years Have Passed Since Thi...

      T 710 RTY-NINE years have passed since this -JL publication began its career . The first

      number ¦• appeared on O y ^ v ct ob 1 er 2 , 1837 »« r \ C \ > m ^ The ml beginning of our jubilee year seems to be

      an appropriate time for retrospect , and for a consideration of thoge works which for half

      a century have stimulated V the impulse and extended the sway of English books . It is

      pardonable egotism to say that no publication has had so practical a connection with the

      production of books as that which has been and still is maintained by the Publishers '

      Circular . As a chronicle of contemporary literature it is complete , in so far that the

      successive numbers have contained the full titles , the sizes , the number of pages , and the

      prices of all books which have emanated from the British press during the Victorian

      halfcentury ; not to speak of lists of the chief American , Colonial , and foreign works .

      Our regular readers may not require to be reminded of the steps which were taken for

      the institution of the Circular . In No . 1 , 000 , published on May 16 , 1879 , the late Mr .

      Sampson IjOw , the original editor , took occasion to give a full account of its origin ;

      and very recently , on the lamented death of that gen — tleman , a familiar and facile pen

      recapitulated the ' story of Mr . Low ' s l ong . connection with the trade and its organ . The

      death of Mr . Low was shortly followed by that of his old friend Mr . H . B . Seeley , the last

      representative of the trade committee which founded the Publishers' Circular . That

      Committee , as is tolerably well known , consisted of the following members : —John Murray ,

      John Bivington , William Longman , R . B . Seeley , Hobert Baldwin , W . Pickering ,

      Thomas Tegg , W . Ball , Samuel Holdsworth , L . F . Do Porquet , James NisbetJoseph

      Kidgeway , G . B . •* Whittaker , and Charles , Tilt J . . Some of the houses that were familiar fifty

      years ago are to-day , as they were then ., distinguished by a long and honoured hereditary

      connection with publishing . On the other hand , not a few names which at that tit * tft

      wefce well known are now vaniahingffgroffi

      fr y from the memory of the older __ memTfOMSHSS fajgl

      the trade ; while to the rising generation they are familiar only on the title-pages of volumes

      that have stood firm against the rushing torrent of ephemera . Headers as well as

      business men of a generation ago are likely to to miss such names as those of Henry

      Colburn , Saunders & Otley , Charles Tilt , Charles Knig ~ J ht & Co ., Edwar — -- — d - — ^ Moxon ^ w ^^ m - ** 4 .. ^ v ^ AA , %

      Thomas Tegg & Son , J . & "W . Boone , John W . Parker , James Fraser ( the original

      publisher of Fraser ' $ Magazine *) , William Pickering , and other publishers who helped to bring

      the literary wealth of the time before the public fifty years ago . But although they have

      disappeared nominally , the influence of their judgment and the labour of their lives still

      survive , so that their productions , renovated to suit modern requirements , continue to

      enlighten or entertain , the reading public of to-day . New firms , too , have sprung into

      existence , and their success , ' more particularly in the far-reaching dissemination of cheap

      books , is one of the most significant testimonies to the reality of the intellectual animation

      which now energises the national life- One conspicuous instance readily comes to mind . It

      was in 1836 that John Cassell , the founder of the great house on Ludgate Hill , came to

      London ; but fourteen years elapsed before he began o— , in company J- •/ with G . W . Petter and

      T . D , Galpin , to publish the Working Man ' s Friendwhich inaugurated his beneficent

      literary , operations . Cheap books , however , were first issued . much earlier than 1850 .

      Their novelty dates from 1827 , when Constable ' s Miscellany and the productions of the

      Society for the Diffusion *^ of Useful , Knowledge were thought marvels of moderation in cost .

      Marvels became miracles , however , when in 1832 such , works as the Penny Magazine ,

      Chambers' Edinburgh Journal , the Famd '\ l s Li tarted brary . , the Mention Penny should Cyclopaedia also be , made & c , were here

      of the rich libraries of Henry G . Bohn , which have done , so much towards diffusing the love

      of learning ; enabling all classes to study the AOk Jl / flta ft ^ tihrat ii Mr

      ffl H H Wm & ^ C mV & kHix W $ & Xm » *\ , Hugh appears appears ITaaer , and name nam not to cnosen the publi was »» sher uuo , Ja w m " " "

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1886, page 1054, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101886/page/4/