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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th October 1885, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1068

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      Mr. John Murray. Tiryns: A Prehistoric P...

      The Religious Tract Society—continued . ) Uncle Miss Roger E . Everett ; or , a Green Summer author of of Surprises ' The Mis , by

      -Fresh trees Campai Di gn ings L ' y & d c gate from , with Priory an illustrations Old , / Mine ' Paul . b Harvard Mary E ' s

      Beck , gg author of ' Chapters on , y Every-day . Things / witii many illustrations .

      Caroline Street , by M . E . Ropes , author of ' My trated Golden . Ship / * Prince and Page / & c ,

      illus-Blessings Book 4 Walking in for very with the J Little esus ge ' type & Ones c , , with b , y a the illustrations new auth Sunday or of .

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      Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon. A Boilers Treat...

      Messrs . E . & F . N . Spon . A Treatise on Modern Steam Engines and

      Boilers ColM for . Inst tho . C . Use E . of Students , by Mr . F . A Text > Book , of Tanning , by Mr . H . R . Proctor ,

      F . C . S . The T . Elemen Tredgold tary fifth Princi edition ples of revised Carpentry b , b Mr y Mr J .

      T . Hurst . , , y . . War W . King ps , and Chief Navies Eng of ineer the , World U . S . , Navy by Mr , new . J .

      A edition Treatise , revised on the . Strength and Proportions of Riveted JointsbDrBindon BStoney

      , y . . , F . R . S . Practical Hints on Taking a House , by Mr . H .

      Workshop Percy Boul Recei nois pts , M , . fourth Inst . C . E series . , by Mr . C . G .

      Lectures Warnford on Lock the Screw , F . L . S . Propeller , by Mr . S . W . Barnab .

      _. Pocket-Book y of Tables nnd Formulae for Rail-University road Engineers of Alabama , by Mr . B . H . Hardaway , B . A .,

      . D The ynamo Thompson Student -Electric ' , s second Index Machinery to edit Mineralogy ion , , b revised y Prof , . b . y Silvanus Mr . T . A P . .

      Readwin , F . G . S .

      Trade Sales Of The Last Century.—

      Trade Sales of the Last Century . —

      few This firms is the now season keep of trade up the sales old , but custom only of a

      giving a dinner on such occasions . We have before us two curious lists of books which

      were to be sold at trade dinners in the middle of of the Books last in century Quires . The which first will is * be A Catalogue sold to a

      select number of Booksellers , at the Queen ' s-Head 1754 / in The Pater dinner -noster was Row to on be Thursday on the table Nov . at 7 ,

      Books one o ' clock in Quires . The , and . second Copies is , to ' A bo Catalogue sold at the of

      Queen's Arms Tavern , in St . Paul's Churchyard 1757 . on ' Later Thursday hours the « eem Tenth to Day have of been November coming ,

      into vogue , for in this instance dinner is to be on the Diffe table rences at are two als o ' o clock apparent precisel in the y . terms of

      the sales . In the first case purchasers were six offere months d * thre for e months twenty ' credit pounds for and ten pounds two six ,

      j the month day s for of delivery fifty pounds / In , . si the gning , later notes sale from the termth

      | j . pounds s were _\ two three * ree months months for ' twenty credit pounds for ten ;

      Trade Sales Of The Last Century.—

      three three month three months s for one for hundred fifty pounds pounds ;• and signing four _\

      notes on the day of the delivery . ' Very , fW of the titles mentioned are familiar nowad

      and if this can be said of the booksthe state ays - ment is still more true in Oonnection , with the

      names of the bu 3 _* ers . As the catal markedwe are able to mention some ogues of the are

      old booksellers , who bought at the sales , selectbusiness ing those . who The great seem to Samuel have Richardson done the bi heads ggest i

      the Wren list C ; then der we have Broth John erton Rivington Whiston , Davey , ! -

      ing man , item , Dod , is Stap the les , fact , Barker that Richardson , & , c . An interest , himself Long - I

      bought 120 copies of his ' Pamela' ( 4 vols . 12 mo . ) at 4 s . 2 d . each in sheets . This , it will

      be remembered , was the work which ran recommended through five editions even by preachers in one year in , the and pul was it

      The signature of James Rivington p is . written one of the cataloguesand the

      name alone upon has some very interesting , associations . James Rivington was a progenitor of

      great the existing -uncle firm of the of that present name partners , being the , whose

      greatgreat-grandfather was John Rivington , mensubsequentl tioned above , became a brother well known of James in connection . James _,

      with the American y War of Independence , being the editorproprietorand printer of

      office the Royalist of which Gazette was , attacked , issued in , and New Yo tted rk , b the a guy

      revolutionist mob . The Church and the _Printing Press . —

      This at the import morning ant subj meetin ect came g of the up for Church discussion

      Congress Mr , on . Hallam October 8 . Murray held that there

      paper existed for a the great working need for classes a Sunday . He _j Church ) ointed work

      ing out that men Sunday could find was leisure the onl to y day read when , and that

      they did read was proved by the fact that more than Reynolds Weekl a million Dispatch ' newspapers and a half , circulated the cop Referee ies of Lloy , and d * them s and the

      y were among every were Sunday none Sunday newspapers which . Among showed of large the any circulation working religious men there ten ' - s dencyThese named were simply secular

      papers be a . , and the whi great ch would desideratum advance seemed distinctly to not Church support newspaper princi a p paper les . which The working bore the man imprint would of

      should the Church contain ostentatiousl the same y kind upon of it . information The paper and Sunday news as was found but that in the should already form existing the

      ment floating should material papers consist , of the of Church paper , while matters the .

      arma-The Rev . E . Maclure , editorial secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian to resolve

      Knowled itself ge , , said for . practical that the subject purposes seemed , into two questions : —How far does the Church at present the

      ture Church use ? the H emp ! printing pointed loy it press more out '; som _efficientl and e of how y the in may the fu hv

      e ways - — which ¦ - —" - ¦ ¦ _¦ tho "• Church n— ' _: _1— : — ; . _'l made i . ' ' . ' . _'" good ¦— II ! I 1 ¦ ' '" _> use . ' ¦ '" i . ii » i » . o . £ _¦ the ¦ _' ! ' . ' . Press , 1 . _^ ' , : & _-M «

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1068, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/8/