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    forms the most powerful lever to move the commerce of the big city , and a holiday from I Wednesday Bf night to Monday morning will be the result . The tempting bills of excursion I

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    the unloving and unloved , stands aside and surveys the closed doors and the unopened safes I from Thursday to Monday with grim mutterings at ' the sales which might have been ' the I tof his brethren will comfort themselves with the reflection that the

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    London church , , hard "by the Temple '—St . Clement Danes , where a brass plate marks the I ni seat ght in to which a larg Johnson e congregation oft-times of men sat—^ on the the rector master , the - Rev mind . John ; and Lindsay at Lichfield , preached , his na on tive Sunday city , I I the Johnson monumen JLOl tthe fa ¦ if fc t of th rffc e mb late Chance Mi ib llor * L i « VW awwas UVS / decora bWbj ted ta wifch ¥ UkW lands of 1

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    Johnsonian VLV Sat f ^ JC QU / VV urday 1 n * JL / XIjUUWVI V 4 . C *> V a C A . « TV t V 1 relics B J V 1 ¦ » JL irming * ¦* , M % JV 4 . . mAtLftmH A . L-C / Here ham IT Bi » V f * \* K t a * and * V memorial JUJl h \~ S A V . IXI there WAJLV V / X XCUl ^ S . I . in room VVlll ^^ other k AA Bi - - was TV Ul , * Kr quarters LV opened Viy BB * A \ JLlVVi VAAV B X a t mention « U V t Aston ^ IT . JK . # - * ^ ^ 7 - (^ » V ^ AJL , JLX Hall was BB C ^ AA . made B JLV It M is of -tJ CV a the reproduction A . g V- 'J-J v ' - day -. ^ - - ' "V * - v , -fcw and * - — - » . v w-- on of _ I I h _^ - ^^~ ^*^ ^«^^ ^ > ^ ^^ ^ ^^

    the f room tl in entertained a house in the bhis Old sch Square ool-fellow , Birming and friend , lately Edmund demolished Hector , in w hich Johnson thin it was the I I wainsco requen *_ ting y , mantelp iece- y , and ^ h Bm ot' her relics ^ A of Johnson Bi . ^ ta ' s connec BB tion ^ B _ with i ' I B the , Midland B metropolis * VA bT ^ A the I B . I

    hav * e been ^ preserved . A tablet with an inscription by the late George Dawson ^^^^^^ , M . A ., I " pre well Stock tty -known ' souvenir facsimile lecturer of reproduction the , also centenary marks of commemoration the the room first . edition Those will who of do Dr well desire Johnson to send to possess ' for ' ' a Rasselas copy in the of Mr P concrete rince . Elliot of a I I I

    Abyssinia s . ' The two volumes , like the publisher ' s facsimile . of ' Kobinson s Crusoe , , ' issued a I the f ew ft years anonymous ann-nvm since nna , are little lithl bea fi book hnnk utifull will -will y prin give mvft ted them thfitn on toned a a . cordial ^ orrlial paper welcome wfiinomfi with uncut . . In Tn ed ges briof brier , and pretatory nrefatory the lovers nobw note or I I

    the Dr . means Macaulay of paying recalls the the cost touching of the act funeral of filial of the devotion author ' s by mother which , and ' Rasselas in the ' publisher was made s II ( I ¦¦ MB , b > btU -fc he 1 > b , j-V asks B-fc . ir ^ B I * < Kl that <*• t % . * " * 4 a the . ! ' BH facsimile Bai --J j * / -. A AAlt - * bT ¦*¦» bbi / v bTv . ~ a * be I " . J ^ k . regarded « B ^ v ^^ a >^* BB « V « ^ J J-V jrj A ~ k r < tf bu-Ij-b . y--. «¦ v"w than bI . 1 < b . _ - _ , a _ . ^ j-fc •>¦ k --. blibj j ^» literary 1 « J * J ¦ ^ V » St ^ k «•• « T * curiosity /) 1 "I T * 1 bT" ^ Ct 1 1 , 1 / _ and / Lll V ^ II IH

    b name fo that ook it h may ght th , be the accep iewed circumstances . ted it as interes a tribute under t is may which to terially the it memory increased was as penned of more a The great oug attempt h a and t mere ^ to good to be | | | taken man l . a into bibliograp To read account , the hy ,

    of r * Rasselas en us ? m v ade in the s pages following ma the preface will . be cordiall ¦ y welcomed suppy by all book- collectors . I

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    remarkable £ 3 , 900 The , competition exceeded feature all of for anticipations the the sale Mazarin of . the For Bible Syston one on of Saturday Library the Perkin , but proved s the cop , ies price as Mr was ¦ . pai Quar anticipated d by itch Mr paid . , Q the u £ * ^ mos w fJL » ) ' J I

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1884, page 1442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121884/page/2/