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    f 'r* 1328 The Publishers' < }ircg,ter 0...

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    —— ... -... ... .—.— t NEWBERY HOUSE. Me...

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    DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL \

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    F 'R* 1328 The Publishers' < }Ircg,Ter 0...

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    —— ... -... ... .—.— T Newbery House. Me...

    —— ... -... ... . — . — t NEWBERY HOUSE . Messrs . Grifl & thFarranOkeden & Welsh

    have dious 1 just and 1 taken handsome possession , new building , of their h in Charing

    commoname Cross — ¦ — - » — Road ¦ in honour M ^^ , r ^ v ^ rv ^^ to v ^^^ vv ^ v ^ a which ^ of ^ v ^ v ^ v ^^ r the ^^ " ^» ^^» famous they w w ¦ ™ — ™ i" h ave ¦ old ^ v ^ - g bookseller iven — the

    who established the business—of Newbery House .

    business It may was be founded interesting in the to state 1740 that the b year , y

    John St . Paul Newbery ' s Church , the philanthropic das he is called publisher I in the of 4 The Yicar of Wakefield yar , . ' After his death in

    ¦ Francis 1767 a _ ¦ . ^ b i t was Newbery continued « , his _~ . successivel nephew a ^ F y ranc by ^ K is his ^ B A New son ' -

    of bery Oliver , and Goldsmith his step-son ' s wr Thomas itings Carnan were pu . bli Most shed by John Newbery , who also issued the works

    and Of Dr man . Johnson other , Christop celebrated her writers Smart . , Dr The . Doilcl old y nowned house in medicine St . Paul's and Chur "tea chyard warehouse was also . a Dr re . -

    ' J ames dicines ' s fe we ver re pow for ders , an so d ld numerous there . C halic tent years ep

    snu u nd , were Analep al tic so amon pills , th an e d commo tea at diti es s . to per be po g

    ago boug ^^^ . ht After at the the — ¦ — establishment — Newberys — - — T «* , J a oh hundred — n Harris years

    sueca ceeded me G to rant the business Griffith . , later It subsequentl on Griffith y be & -

    w F arran adopte , and d . five years ago the present style The new house is built upon a prominent

    B site ear in Street Charing and Cran Cross bourne Road , t reet th , an corner d stands of

    upon land which is the property of the London County Council . It contains an area of nearl

    3 ^^^^ , 000 ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ superficial ^^ a ^ B feet ^^ > in ^ . the ^ K basement ^^ . , and y ^^ over 2000 feet on each floor above . It has

    faced three frontages , with red , t brick he two s and princi white pal ones Portland being

    stone lazed ; bricks the third . The is house faced w with hich p is icked six stories white g ,

    in appearance height , . is Here substantial and there and is i handsome ntroduced in in

    and ihe carved Sun , ' wit stonework h the motto the 'Fiat sign o Lux f th . ' ' There Bible

    are about 120 tons of iron used in the building , each floor having a continuous iron girder

    buil chion t in the near inclosing l walls ier . , besides The mai a n stan en - - y every p

    tesse trance _ lated ___ leads _ pavement _ directl H vv y h into on th e l flfc arge ht h is all a , private with a

    recept — — ion — — and wr ^ v v ^^ waiting ^ ^ ^^^^ v room - ^ ^^ m «^ ^ rfft . ^^ . In ^^ gjfk g . m ri ^ ^ this ^ ^ b *^ ' ^^^ hall B ^^ ^ k ^ fc W are ^^ ^^ ^^^ displayed a complete set of the publications of

    the Cd . ' s house , ial and of ductions Messrs . Griffith books , i Farran n leather & specpro

    b In ind the ings waiting , Bibles room , Prayer , containe Books d , h in ymna two ls , larg & c e . oi b f John k oiin cases Newberv , is the collection the founder of the of publications the honae

    dating oJ from JNewbery 1740 . , to the the rounder end of of the the last house cen . - , t — uryand of Harrishis successor and of Jk the

    lj — " **¦ ¦ * —— ** w * . — j *** r , m aaapj K # MVVVMIJV / JL ; «> WJL * X ** V ^«/ AA ^/ present successors time of . H Ascending arris , from th 1800 e wide dow h n to dsome the '

    s artistic taircase tistic hand ii , an built a--worked worked in solid wrought wrousrht mahogany --iron iron , balustrade balustrad , with an e .

    h Jtious w ouse e arr ^ , ive which which at the are are partners ntted fittari ' rooms with -wrif . li and pi -ni tch t . counting r » . > i pi t ^ i ne ti p ,

    , fe throughout .

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    on The the left entrance pf the t ' o entrance the trade hall department ana a stair is

    -, and case the therefrom counting leads house also on to the the first private ' floor ^ . rooms The

    secon wareh d ouse floor , and is the the whole Bible area and is Prayer occupied Book by

    and the ' vast to editori and varied al and stock travellers in this ' department le roomsr , . samp The third and fourth floors ¦ ¦ are filled --- entirel ~ „_ y

    with Co J ^^ ^^ J ^ . ^^^ ' s the ^ publications ^ J ^^ ^^^^ stock ^^^ P ^&^ K ^ l ^^ B of ^ V ^*^ . ^ V ^^ W Messrs » ^^ ^^ The »^^ ^^^^™ ^^ . basement ~ ™ Griffith ^ " , Farran is an un , ^^ ^ & ^ - built

    us nsiial lazed uallW y bricks well well--liorhted lighted and halted space sr > ace . , floor built and of ox is wnite white en- g tireldevoted to the asp packing and , despatching i ,

    of goo y ds . The basement also contains a strong-^ roo m - ^^ -m ^ ^ m ^^ mm *^ on " ^^ ^^^^ a ^ ^ ver - ' ^ ^^ y m large — ^^^ m —— - scale — , ~ w in which are stored — ^^ ^™ ¦ ,

    the plates wood original blocks and , elec valuable trotype and pict ures tereotype and

    other , treasures of the house . The entrances , and exits for goods are situated in Bear

    men Street t . An the h l y draulic l of lift the runs stree from t , an the d an base * hy -

    to draulic ^ v ^ i ^ be ^*^ ^*^ taken ^^ ^^ r ^ m cran ^^^^^^ ^ r ^^^^^ e out ^^^ - ^~— handles - ^ r or m — put h ^ — large - into — — cases vans - - — . — which We — t have — rust — — - — —

    w th idening at many success years lie of before honoura Messrs ble an . 43 d rrimth ever- ,

    attractive Farran , Okeden quarters & a Welsh t Newbery , in their House ^ roomy . Their and

    new departure even be sai is d a to sign have ificant acted one , on and Horace they may

    Greeley s famous advice— 'Go West .

    Dictionary Of National \

    DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL \

    BIOGRAFHY . * With Vol . XX . of Mr . Leslie Stephen's

    A Dictionary , our port ^ we of origi are l—j , n , — is it far were out , o in f — si mid g ht - on ocean ~ ~ our , j I

    lee port , and of destination no one is . as Looking yet thinking back we of see Z , that our the rate of speed and ( what is of much more

    maintained importance ) the hrou level hout of . excellence In short has all been I well .- Therejias often g been occasion , to remark goes j

    that some of the volumes are much more intributors teresting must than ~ ta oth ke the . O names f course as they , the come

    conand now and again a volume is rich in great , namesand now and again wanting in them .

    , the Vol . greatest en XX . is one life —— of in — the it is latter that — cl of ass C . ____ . Perhap J . — Fox s ,

    The which notice is very of Sir well Phili done by Francis the Rev is contributed . W . Hunt . p

    b y der the editor absol . Mr l . certain Stephen that does Franc not is wrote con'Junius ' s Letters ' but he points out that all

    t h e evi d ence is *• in , favour «• of hi *¦ s aut horsh "I i p . He gives nine points which make that way ,

    and said then that sums Taylor up : established ' On the whole a prim , it 4 may facie be

    presumption which has been considerably papers strengthene and d which by the is publicatio turned into n of something Francis ' s j

    writing like proof , st , unless d by ^ Chabot the coincidences and Netherclift of hand can

    be upset , . Nor is there any real difficulty , in

    the assumption . The personal indications

    Garner ? Dictio . London nary of : National SmithElde Biography r & Co . , Vol . XX ., . Forrest to ^ , a

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1889, page 1328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101889/page/10/