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    school he fell under the influence of a philanthropist—John Minto Morgan—with whom he

    resided for some time at a farm near Uxbridge ; afterwards he became acquainted with the once

    celebrated Robert Owen , of whom he always spoke with the greatest respect . and He full soon of joined the energy his father which in he his disp business layed

    during , all his life , quickly learned its details , and spent his evenings either in the practical pursuit of bookbindingor at the Birkbeck

    Institute , which had then , been newly opened in Chancery Lane . Afterwards he became associated with Mr . -Charles Robersonthe

    well-known colour-maker of Long Acre , , and learned a branch of business that was of the greatest use to him in his after life .

    When his father retired , Vincent Brooks succeeded to the business in Oxford Street

    and added to it chromolithography , an art at , that time in its infancy . Some of his early

    efforts in this direction were in the production of a copy of the * Chandos ' portrait of Shakspeare ; the ' Spanish Peasants going to

    Market , ' after John Gilbert ; and ' Examples of Flowers' made for the School of Art . These

    plates , , acknowledged to be of the highest excellence in chromolithography , drew the

    attention of the authorities of the School of Art to his work , and he was consequently

    engaged to conduct an Art Class in Lithography for ladies , at Marlborough House . Here he came under the notice of the Queenthe Prince

    Consort , and the Princess Royal , and , in _lfc 55 was entrusted with the reproduction of the Princess ' s well-known picture of * The Dead

    Soldier on a Crimean Battlefield , ' which was afterwards published on behalf of the Patriotic Fund .

    Finding his business rapidly increasing , Vincent Brooks moved his printing offices first

    to King Street , Covent Garden , and subsequently to Chandos Street , where he executed

    much good work . Among other things he copied in chromolithography ten water-colour drawingsby John Gilbertin illustration of

    , , * Shakspeare ' s Songs and Sonnets , ' published by Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . These

    drawings were rendered in such absolute facsimile that they received the warmest praise from the artistand we may venture to add that no set

    of drawings , were ever more faithfully reproduced . The plates to Mr . J . B . Waring ' s folio

    work , * Architectural Art in Italy and Spain , ' were also executed about this timeaB well as

    the same artist ' s * Arts and Architecture , of the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century , '

    which was the only important book that Vincent Brooks published at his own risk . From the Paris Exhibition of 18 b 7 he received the

    one gold medal given for chromolithography to Kngland . In the year 1867 he bought the business

    that had been for many years carried on by Mr . William Day , and subsequently by his

    sons . In the well-known offices in Gate Street he brought all his energies to bear upon one of the largest establishments of the kind in

    London , in which his two sons who now succeed him have ably assisted . OBEr _*— ' ' . ' . 'i ii . " i in' i iii . ¦ i 11 i ' . ' n i

    To the lithographic business he added the Woodbury type and Willis ' s Aniline Process of hthilttethd

    Photograpy . By s aer mohe was assistance enabled to in give the architects exact reproduction and engineers of great their _,

    drawings by the direct action of light . He died quite suddenly on September 29

    while talking with a friend in the office of Messrs . Spalding & Hodge , in Drury Lane .

    He was buried on October 3 , in Wandsworth Cemeterywhere his was surrounded b

    , grave y his and famil many y , other a faithful sorrowing band friends of his . employe ' s ,

    Vincent Brooks was a man of very active mindand so vigorous in body that he told the

    writer , of this memoir that he leaped over hurdles only five years ago , and , on a late visit

    to the Lake country , ran much of the way up Skiddaw . Of his amiable and upright characterall

    who knew , and especially those who worked , with him , will bear willing witness . He

    deserves to be remembered ; perhaps the Gate Street business , which he himself erected , is '

    his fittest memorial . —PublishersCircular , Oct . 15 , 1885 .

    We regret to announce the death of Mr . Richard James Kennett , of York Street ,

    Co vent Garden , which occurred at Midhurst on the 3 rd instant . The deceased was in his eighty-fourth year .

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    _pcmticncc-To the Editor of the Publishers' Circular . suggest Dear ion Sir respecting , —Will second you a -hand llow book me space catalogues / or a ?

    rai Wh se y t do heir not catalogu large e dealers prices in in order second to - g hand ive to books retail trifling booksellers 10 a fair cent discount ? I , know instead a _books of * the eller present who

    has a list of per good buyers . of second-hand books to hand whom , catal he would addressed be glad to to him send if all it were the possi second ble - ogues

    to this supp is l impossibl y the books e , mos at t the part affixed of , those price catalogues . But , as

    find basket their because way immediatel serious difficul y to ties the have waste-paper arisen between , the bookseller and his customersowing to

    , the commission charged beyond the affixed price . 22 Hue de la Banque , Yours respectfully ,

    Paris , Oct . 10 . F . CHEVILLET .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1078, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/18/