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    A Fierce Attack On Ancient

    alert stellation , the always lesser li managed ghts inr to the turn bookselling something con up * ,

    to their own advantage . * Miscellanies , Never Before Published , ' by Dr . Swift or Mr . Pope would - B BB- bv Bf B ( rv ¦ be B BB sure B B P ¦ B » - to -B ¦ sell I —— well - ~ . A quant B- ¦ —¦ ity J of ¦ - verse b- -

    _ ^ ___— ^— — " - — — ^ ' — — — — _ — in Scott ' s edition of Swift was hot and could not have been written , by- the author of * Gulliver ' s ' Travels jj ^^^ bb > b _ -bb- b- b ^^ ^^ bb » b ^ / bv The b ^ bt ^ bb- - ^ -- fact ^^ b" - » > bb- — . of — a — — piece ¦— — — - ^— - — of — poet h - ¦ - - ¦ - —¦ - — ry — » being " - — _ b _ -

    rightly or wrongly attributed to an eminent person mattered but little to the bookselling skirmishers ; r so ^ tr " ^ p ^ long ^^^ 1 — —r- —r _^ as _^ - _»» b ^ it bb- -b- ¦ was — b b > smart i b bbbb—¦ - ^^ — — or —— smutty — — •—¦ — b - — ¦ — b , or —— ^^— both - — - b » - — — - , « and ^ — ^ b—

    particularly if it came'from some remote part of Great Britain , it was at once pounced upon , and , with W V b * Wb * ' ^»^ B a ^^^^ "T big *^ ^^ VVK " name bb . bb b , m b : ^ fc ^» bb- , «¦ came -bb- — — - — -b- —— fort ^ - _ b » — - h ¦ ¦ in 1 bb _ b the _ r bbbb bb- manner ™ - ^^^ w * ^ vv ^^ v ^ _»__ b ^ _—

    already indicated . * The Broken Mug ' isia case in point . This was published , or rather printed , in Dublin ¦ uiibbb bbbbibp about b 1720 b but a few cop bb ies 1 reach ibb ed

    ^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^ p ^^^^^ land ^ jbbb »^^» - ^ v , when ^_^ " - - ^^ - ^^ " - ~» ^» ™ Curl ^^ - ^ ^ r ^ b l at , ^^ once ~» - ~— ~ - ^—^^ seized — - ^ " - — ~^ - ^ it ^^» - . — — and ~^« - ™ ™ ~^^»— issued ^— - ^^^ »^™~^^ ^^^ — - — the same among other things ' never before

    published' as by Swift . The real author was Laurence Why te . DrJjohnson expressed a favourable

    , . very opinion cc ^ ncerning booksellers , whom he described ^ as jp ¦ i ^ Bf p ^^^ the ^ B ^ ^ B ^^ p ^ ^ p ^ pr true ^ p ^ ^^^ ^ V ^ BT ^*^ r pat »^^^ ^ ' ^^ ¦¦^^ " rons ^ " ^ ^^ ^ " »^^ W « i ^ Br of ^ W » — ~—— literature —^ ^^ ^ " ^ " ^ ^— " ^» r ^ - ^— ^ v h - ^ pv . ^^ ¦ ^ D ¦ ray ^ B ^ ^ B ^^ ^ " - W ton ^^ F ^ B ^ BBJ BB ^ was W * Ba # V ' ^ B ^ , B ^ p

    if his own words have any literalness , a positive martyr to their trickery . More than a hundred after the wicked had ceased to

    trouble poor years Dray ton , and when his weary soul was BT Bf B ^^ BbT PB ^ at Bp ^^ pp ^ B » B rest > 4 "B ^ ¦ " ^ , ^ B ^ the ^— ^^^^ - ^ h Gentleman ^ bPI ^^^ ^ ^ ^ B ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ ^ ^ - ^ ' s ^ B » Magaz ^^^ " - ^ B 1 ^ y ^ B 1 " - ^ » ^^ ine ^ — ^ P ^ BV ( B ^^ ix B" ^ ^ BBB 1 . BT p m ^^ r . BB iii ^^"" BBBT # B | . W ) ^ B ^

    cont which ained tells , in its 'An own Appeal story to the : ^ Nothing Publi ' c , ' a is passage more ' ^ . BBJ bM > * M 41 ' A ' B ^ Bfc ' ^ A a BB ' 4 ^ B ^ ^ ' ¦

    criminal ^ in the opinion of niany of them [ i . e . pub - lishers ] than for an author to erjjoy iiiore advantage from his own »¦*¦ works than Wl they are disposed

    ( . UICk ^^ •¦ - * ¦ V- ^* - * - fc * ¦ *** r V » » TV ^ Mt' -BW * - »• S- ' < V . ^ . » «« r AA ^ - * T KifV-Bk ^ - ^ X * A »—» | k / V / MVW to allow him . * In the seventh volume ( p . 239 ) of the same . venerable periodical there will be

    found a t ranslation of a highly interesting letter from a French publisher to a journalist , in which the former soundly rates the latter on the

    incompetent way in which he has earned the ' ten pistoles B ^ B ^ "Bf BbP BB ^ ^ B- « Bf - ^ B » BBB 1 ' that ^^ ^^""^^^ ^ B ^ ~— ^ B- he ™ " ^^ ^ B » may ^^^ ™ i i ^ B ^ - ^ B » B at ^ ^ - ^ ^^ any ^—^ ^ ^^— ^ ^ time ^ B- ^^ ^^^ " ^^ B ^ B » ^ B * receive BB ) BV , ^(^ B > ^ b * BBBf Bf ^ ^ BJ ^ ^ . ' Yon ^ B . ^^^ n > At ' BS V b bB . ^ ' ^* " . » ..

    are , ' says the publisher , ' too sparing in your encomiums on my books , and do not sufficiently run BBJ BT-BJ B ^ BBf down ^ TBf B ^ Br W BBB B »^ those ^ B ^ BBB ^ - ^ B v ^ B > ^ B ^ ¦ of ^ B ^ ^^^^ my ^^^ v ^^ v ^ - ^^ ¦ brother ' ^ ^ B ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ T VBBB booksellers B * BT ^ b * ^ b' ¦ ^ B « BB Bl * T Bb bBi Bb > bB BbT ^^ . ' Truly p ^ BJ , b ^ B ¦ B ^^ B ^ b ..

    this gentleman ' s brotherly spirit was exceeding great , but this complaint is nothing to what he say cation Bf s f a : little 4 You 1 further are likewise 1 1 on in the to play same Bf Bf communi the BP BB devil

    -— BV ^ B ^^ B ^ ^^^ B ^^^^^ ^ — — ^^ ¦ ^—^ ~— ¦ ^^^ ^— ¦ — ¦ - ^» ¦— —^^ m ^ " ^ ^^^ BF ^ ^ ( Bb ^ BbB * ^ bB * Bb > ^ B ^~ W B > Bb with every book printed for N and P , booksellers , they being God ' s and the State ' s enemies 1 1 and ¦ what ¦ is Hi more 1 1 ¦ 1 they are BBB | also mine . '

    Was - ^ m ~ — m Bp The ' - ever ^^^ ^^ - ^^^ , ^ m ^ Bi ¦ rw — a ^^ ¦ desire Z > , ^ B , Street ~ — ™» ^» put ^ Journal » ^ in - ^^^^^^ b so bbb , ^ naive B ^ of B » b ¦ ^ B— bb December b a b ¦ Br b manner ^ B b 1 BBBiBa BtfBf BBi V ^ bbb ^ ItfHf ^ bBT 7 ? B ] bV . B > and b bj bVb bV B ^^ Bf bbb /

    ' ^^^ " " ^ " ^ ' ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^~ ^>^ — -m ^ r - ^ - ^ r Bp - ^ r- - ^ — ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^* ^^^ " ^^ ^ ' > - ^« ^^ . * b ^ ^* ^* ^* . 14 BBB M , 1732 BBb BBtf B *^ ^« . , contains -A an interesting A * - ft and BBBk amusing B article ¦ ^^ ¦ ¦ ^^ " 1 ¦ " —^ ^^^ on ^ B- - — — — * Tricks ^ ' 1 - ~~ " - — * ~^ B ^ of ^^^^ ^^ - ^ ™ Booksellers ^ ^^ B * ^ ¦ - ^ ^ B ¦ ^ 1 ¦ ^ " ^ Bi BB i > B fB |^ Bp . 1 ' After BB | BBf B ^^ BT BJb' ^^ V ^ V referring p ^^ , ^^ T tf . BI ~ BB ^ B ^ H BB ^ g BVBf Mb flV V ^^ l ^ fe .. ^ m W —1 ^ m ^ BH ^ BB . _ i

    w to riter the * proceeds title of : a ' The book BBBBb chief b as being rule in important buy Btf BAB ^ ing books , the BJ ^^ B-

    ~ ^ B ^ IB- ' ^ B B ^^ H BI P B B— ^ BP' ' ^ BV B ^ - ^ - ^ I ^ > ^ BBI W ^* ^^^ B ^ * BBB BB | BB-BBB BBJ ~ B | pB > V ^ BIb * ^ V ^^ ^ Va ^^ H ^ K *^^^ ^^ JB ^ B ^ B , jis Bt the *« > author bV . ' s name , which " * AI « is b 1 now no rule BB . at all , w since ¦ - ^— ^^— ¦ ¦ b ^^ p . ^ b- ^ the ^ ' — — - i" Booksellers * ^ ^ ^ B- ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ - ' ^ ^ B ^ ^^ " ^ r ^ B" ¦ hav ¦ —~ " ^ B ^ B » w e ^ B ^ usurped ^^ - ^^^ »^¦ B » ^ Br ¦ ^ i BT ^ BBi BT ^ B ^ BBJ the B > BBI BB BBr making bBBIBBBJ ^^ b BJ ^ b ^ BJ ^ "Bb ff ^^* b ^ bBJ ^ bBJ ) BM ^ k of ^ ^ ^^^^ BB IB b ^ A ^ ^ - ^^ ^ ¦

    names as well as titles . . . ' The writer . contends . . that 1 1 ¦ 1 ¦ " ^ ^ " ^ ~~ ' for 1 ¦ ^^ Bi 1 the ^^^ w- — — — ^^^» - ¦ Eng ¦ ^» w ^ - bh lish B ¦ BB " ^ - »^ ^^^ booksellers » ^» " "B » ^^^ ¦ »^^ W ^ B- ^ BBB * Bi ^ BI BB ¦ BT BBB T ^ BB there B ^ B * BBfe pB B | B ^ B ^ B ^^ V ^ is ^^ P ^ B' J no ^ J ^ ^^^

    species oi legerdemain which certain among them do not practise daily , especially that of assuming the name ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ of some celebrated author fT Bjb ( or fl the fl | "B ^^ title

    * - ^— — — — " ™ - » - —— BJ -BF- BB— —^ " ^ B- * — " ^ - ^ ^»— — ~ BBr — ' ^ ^ " ^ BBJ 'BFB BBB BBB " . BJ * B ^ " ^^ - ^ ^ y ^ ^| r V ^^ ^^ B * » ^^^^ of some eminent world ) either in its proper form , or with some minute variation , as Feilding for Fielding ' " ~^ ^ B ^ — ' — -W ' B ^ B . VB , Colbatsh ' ^ B' ¦ - ^ — B > 'B ^ B- " » "B— ' B ^ B —T for B ^ B > ^^ B ^ Colbatch -BB— ¦ *^ —^ B * " -B ^ BT BjT "BBB » BBfBBBJ , BB Chamberlen B ^ P PfeB | Vb ~ BB bBb ^^ Bb ^^ ' ^| >^ ^~ " bW « * Bj ' ¦^ b' bB « bV < J for Bf ^^ V f Jf %

    Chamberlayne , Joseph for John Gay , which last article has put some pounds into C l ' s pocket by selling some B of his B worst B VT > B > BB > poems PBbbBJ r ^ B— . '

    B - « W ¦ ' W —^ B W ~* » — B- — B ^ B " - — ^ " ^ ¦ ' ~—— ¦ I -BB- BB | BB B ^ BPBBB B ^ B ^ ^^~ ^ B ^ V ^^ ^^ « ^ The ¦ TBJI ^ B . Bi connection . AT between BB . _ Dryden BB ^ K- ^^ and ^^ Tonson m was not without its tricks on both sides . The r latter ~* "BB- ^ BB- ^— ™ - "" B wrote BJ BJ B- ^ -Bf — BB- ¦ once B * ~^ 'BBJ- BB comp BB- - ^ . b 1- pBBBB BB J ^ 1 laining B ^^ B ¦ * ^ ^ B "" BJ fBPBB * Bpi ^ k th B |* r BB ^ B ^ at ^^ W ^ B » the BJB B » « IBJ B ^^ B- poet ^^^ F ^ F B ^ pV BJ ^ sold f ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^/^

    to a rival publisher 1 , 518 lines of verse for forty received guineas , whilst 1 , 416 lines for ten . The guineas objections more he were had most only ;

    and delicatel i a great y put admirer . iuu Old Jacob of i / i William iin ; wa $ & the 8 trongfC Third bJ lBWii to g (

    whom c 2 . jl . la . at . he giv * t wished *> u uu to dedicate . » » Dry u - vuv den ' s , .- yirgil vj , aj . , 1 , 1 , , but the poet ' s Toryisna wastoo iieep-rooted for

    , this - _ .. Tonson _____ , bent _¦ - ^ on having —a _ t ¦¦ his way 1 " ,- to * . ' some extent BT BBj ^ quietly ordered B . ^ BB > "BB-BB tbat the B » BB nose in all the

    p 'BjB- BH ictures ^ ^ Bl » B- , H BM of » ^ ^^ ^_ B _ ^ B- . _ BV , Eneas BBJ . ^ JB . be ^ « B BB ^ B- drawn ^— BBB BB ¦¦ . 'B- BB ^ H ^ B- with ^ ¦ — ^ ' Bl ' Dutch ^ ^ ___ — -BT >~ —B- B _ 'BB- ^ K ^— William abi ^ BB tf » B * A ¦ * _ B W » BB ^ B ^ J ^^ ' s hooked — — - ~ - b- -b .- B— proboscis ¦ - — _ - ^— , a fact which | gave g J' rise to - — the B- ___¦ « bT

    following : ' Old -BBP- ^^ ~ BB ^ ^ Jacoh ^ m ^ ¦ ^ B BJ » ' — , ^ BJ by W 'B ^ ^ J deep — ^ ¦ 'B- . ^^ p H BJ jud - ~ gments F ^^ t ^^ swayed ^^ -I ™ , W

    l * o please the wise beholders , Has placed old Nassau ' s hook-nosed head On young _ 3 Sneas * shoulders . '

    There is an exceedingly interesting letter of Pope ' s addressed to the Earl of Burlington some / * m ^ ^ — - i ^ M A ' . _ fe . ^

    time . in 1716 , and it teem » s with ^ ^^ a relation of bookselling tricks . But fortnnatefy there is every reason to believe that this letter had no

    foundation in fact , although it may substantially represent no very uncommon occurrence , at that

    period . On _ t journey to Oxford in company with Pope , Lintot is represented as having exclaimed with reference to translat Bi ors ' Sir Bh

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    them at the rate of ten shillings per sheet for translations , * which are corrected and revised by some other individual : The worthBernard had

    an amusing way of dealing with y , critics . The rich ones he silenced for a sheet apiece of the blotted I BI BB Bj (» BBB-Bj-Bb ^ B- MS Ti B bb BT . which - " - " BB- they BI BW pretended BBV BBB ^ BfbB ¦ was VVKf submitted Vbb f

    to their - - ^ ^ _ correction ' - "B ^ , — _ , whilst - " ^ - ^ small ^ ' ^ - _ - ^* B- B ^ B authors , ^~ , 1 ^ ( V . dedicated ** ^ V ^^ 9 ^^ 4 ^ BBbV jB ^^ ^^ "~ ^^ T . | |_ their works to them . On one occasion ( accordin

    to Pope ) a lean man that looked like a very good g scholar entered Lintot ' s shop and took the

    newly-issued translation of Homer , at every up line of —^* ^ B ^ which — BBBB — B ^ b b- » — he ^ ^ " B- raised - ^ — -B ^ T ^ an -B ^ -r ~—^^ ¦ ¦ ¦ objection - ^^ B ^^ B > BBBB ¦ ^ b * - BIbB . ^ T ^ When f ^^ ^^^ ^^^ f J ^ J ^ in ^^ j ^ ^ K the ^^^ ^^ j ^ B ^ g ^—Bl Bill ^ ^ jf « V _ Jh BBBh jB —^ h . _> fl iB ^ k j ^^ __

    noidst of finding fault , , Mrs . Lintot ^^ . ^ called out that at B-- dinn _ — — m — er b- ' was jB - - - read ¦ —— ¦ — ^^ y W _> . B ¦ '"^ Sir B-BBB . ^^ - BBP ^ , Bf . will _ B B ^ _ b «^ - you » » , _— B ^ B , eat «_/ VV * ' ^ a ^

    pieeeof heef with me ? " ' Mr . Lintot , " said he , / 'lam sorry " you should be at the expense of this

    great account book . " " . Sir I , I am am reall much y concerned obliged to on you your . If you can dine on ¦ a piece of beef -BUT ItfVBI BBJ together B | T ^ u | 1 ^ ' with a

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    - — J J — B— -T . T - - ^— , BP , —I _ you , J _^ . B _ ^^ ^^ _ K — ' t > WJ "fc ^ " ^ go in m . " My IV b «* critic m m complies « A A , he iiiiH comes to taste of your ^ j — — poetry ¦— — — ¦ - ¦ ^ i , and _ . _ tells — _ — _^ , _ me —^ — in — . bb . the -, _ .. > , same » v ~~—i . * m - ^ m breat r-- ' <* b ^ iVVVAJI h that % /*—»• W

    excellent the book . ' is commendable and the pudding But for trickery , of whatever nature it may

    the be be . , . Edmund Edmund fraternity Uurll Curll . Possessed certainly certainlv outdi obt of . di a stanced stanr fiendish > . f » rl any a-nv pro of r » - V pensity fox —¦ getting into hot ¦ waterto \ be making

    somebody j _ " ' ^/ — —• uncom i ^ -- — ' — — — ^^ fortable < ~~) ^ " ^ seems ^^ " * ¦•* - *** to - >>^ . , have ** -, r | UV been jLAlMflVlll one of the principal reasons of his existenceHis

    J i B ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ "f ^ H ^ i iu 4 *^^ b * ^^ b * A & Ak v ^ piirii ^ lb / ^^^ f i ^ Li J | L *^^< F . not most — the ___ famous - _ most — -- ¦ ¦— —¦ edifying - — - quarrel ¦ _/ ^^^^ J chapter was -- — ' J ^ " - with - " —p ^ Mb in AAA Pope the UJMV , history J-Jl and JkJ ^^ * ' ~ L- " * i it ^^^ J ^ oi ~ m is L ^ J —• ^ J

    English literature . Curll may be exonerated letters from his as ¦ it share is now in generall - the bi publication considered of that Pope the ' s

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    brougHouse of Lordsand at once dismissed " , the ~^ irrepressible — .. — — - j ^— — - — —vrv —> - — b , - _ Curll - ^^ b— .. « , B .-B . declared ~ , -4 V >\^ 'A- ^ -L'A V- *» - * . t I hat AiJI ^ W 1 / miht beat him

    Pope gat a rhyme ,, but he was his intimated opponent ' s that master Curll at prose published . It has the already sermons been of the -xie principal principal divines aivines , . in In a a s sudden udden nt fit of of piety triefcv or or

    otherwise he sent a copy of Rochester ' s * Poems ' request to Dr . Robinson to revise , the Bishop same of . London This little , with dod a polite was ge =======-1- ^^ d

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1887, page 1378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111887/page/12/