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    Bookselling In The Poultry. The ^~~^^ ^^...

    Edward III . the . meat of certain butchers wad taken and forfeii ^ aV because-they obstructed

    in the opposition street of the to the PQultry ordinance - ^ eiti ^' thei of-.. the r benches mayor ¦ ,

    and aldermen . During , -the reign of Willfam III . the L / 11 O poulterers pvr « A * vv / x > sjlk > and nuu butchers M ^ { uvv « uva 0 j remove * vwlv t vu d , to w juvm Leaden \* vu

    by hall haberdashers , and were succeeded and glovers for . the' greater . part

    At a d much booksellers earlier were period to than be foun is generall d in the y suppose ,

    Poultry was living . at In ' 1569 the long , for sh ex op adj le oining , John to Aide St .

    year Mildred he ' p s ublished church or in printed the Poultry a severe , ' and onsl in au this ght

    t on he Bishop prelate Bonner whom , - the the flatterer Pope of threatened Wolsey and to

    throw die — d on into September a caldron of 5 boiling 1569 lead and . B in onner the

    —~ ^ , y , j same or dirg year e of Aide bastarde issued Edmonde * A commdmoration Boner , alias

    Savage , usurped bishoppe of London . ' John Aide following was year living in the lear sam n f e house the reg in iste the r

    books of the parish , that one of his journeymen , Hug ^ y h Morts , died of the p j . lague ^ — --in a

    in room the called same the house stocks in . 1597 He was . Rich still ard residin Keel g

    long was shop also pr in & the iting Poultry and , publishing unaer St . Mildred ' at the ' s churchand in Lombard Street- 7 at the - sign of

    the 1548 Eag to , le 1582 , near . and unt seven o the or Stock - ei ht , Market of ~ his , ' books o from g

    bert have B been urbie descr , was ibed another by bibliograp eminent hers sixte . Cuth enth-

    century ' at the bookseller middle shop , whose in the shop Poul was try for , a time der

    Saint Mildred ' s Church . ' By the middle of the seventeenth century

    t t he he Poultry period . had A become very famous the Paternoste bibliopolic r Row re si of

    the dent Peacock was Nat . h That aniel egregious Ponder , w flatterer hose sign John was

    y Dunto << n ) Ponder n , has ' described as having ' N ' sweetness athaniel ( alias and , enter Bun - -

    favour prise in ; his ' b air ut , which hese qualities plead and did antici not pate prevent in his

    him sharing the penalty of breaking the law . at We the read Court , for examp at Whitehall le , that on the May King present , 1676 ,

    lie was committed to the Gatehouse , for printing , an and unlicensed pamphlet , tending to the sedition

    and defamation defamation of of the th « Christian Christian religion rftlio-ion . . He TTft tomary was released fees and on the entering 26 th , after into a bond ing of the £ 500 cus- .

    t We « presume , and that that he was Mr . very Ponder glad was to publish duly repen the

    t ' he l il seditious grim ' s Progress hlet ' ( 1678 which ) as a got counterblast him into so to

    pamp muc first h connec trouble tion . between This appears Bunyan to have and been Ponder the ,

    who issued eleven editions of the ' Pilgrim ' s Progress of Ro ¦¦ , ' bert the twelfth Ponder ( 1689 a son ) bearing ba «^ ar bl the F imprint rom a

    very —r — - scarce v »\ - ^ - ^* r ^ ^ M ^ cata fc . >^ -f ^^ ^ logue >» - ^^ jft . , a m ^«/ of r ^ ^ - ^ - »* Nathaniel . pro m * r «• ^ r n ^ ¦ ¦>^ F «•> y . Ponder ^^ ^ h - * - ^ ^ a , a we , « m ^/ glean 4 Pilgrim that ' s P the rogress first ' and were second sold at part a shilling of the

    <> oac n the h ; whilst Fear of Bunyan God , ' ' the s other ' lUfe works and — Death 'A Treatise of Mr . Madman' and the ' Doctrine of Law and Grace

    iv Unfolded bo , '—were soMat eighteenpence ; * Grace

    unding' was priced at a shilling , and A

    Book other cbo i : f ^ 2 || Bd & ;; c i 9 ^ ^ ; S newly 'ianil s published 6 Mr ] s ^ at sixpence by Nath . . Ponder Among ' . '

    we a ; great . may variety mention i / of * Ai the Copy most ¦ ¦ -book useful - ^™~ , enriched and modish with

    L hands ^ A e ^^ - ^^ tters j ^ ~ K - — , * adorned ( ^ rw one " ¦¦ " ^ before ^^ m ^ & ^ ^ " with »— ^ ~ ^ ^ ^ ' ^ every i a whole — ^ " ^ ^ M examp ^^ al p le habet ^ ¦ ^ ) , ^^ — by of Thomas — ^ b grea — — t ,

    Watson , Teacher of a writing school in New-Writing port Pagnell or roun ' ( 2 s dhand . 6 d . now in folio in use ) . ' * and Practical ' The

    Divine , Art ' of Memory , or the sum , of the Holy Scriptures delivered in Acrostic verses , ' were

    two also the f Pon ' Divine der's shilling Breathings book ' of s , at * T which . S . ' mi g i ht ce

    h Progress ave bee ' n not acqu onl i re came d . fro Bunyan m the ' s Pou * Pil ltry gri but m ' s

    a in spur 1683 ious by secon Thomas d part Mai , by thus ' T . S ., ' h e Sun issue , in d

    t he ' P C oultry lete , who Statesman , in , the same . ' , year , published , omp

    the The Poultry most booksellers famous and is widel Joh y n known Dunton of t the all crack-braine _ _ d inven — t _ or of a thousan _ d projects .

    t u But beyond mentioning that this worthywhose career has been many times

    writtenlived men a at bout the whom Black very Raven little , we * is will known pass . on Of a

    wr very ites extensiv : * Mr . e John Poultry Lawrence bookseller , an , D honest unton ,

    upright bookseller . We were neighbours . some yea t ^ ps , and partners in printing the late Lord

    the ) elam Siege ere ' s of wo Londonderry rks ; Mackenzie " an ' s d " Mr Narrativ . Baxter e of ' s

    will " Life not , " in suffer folio him . He t < 5 h break ais somethin , his word g in him which that is

    as altogether his bond as . good When a . securit Mr . Parkhurst y and dependence , dies , he

    will be the first Presbyterian bookseller in England . He is so exact in trade as to mark

    conversant down every in book the he sacred sells . writings He is . very ' Thomas much i

    Three Parkhu Crowns rst , whose at shop the was lower at end The of Bible Cheap and ^

    , mas si de - \ ter , near and Mercers t » w hen Dunton i ' ¦ ¦ Chapel /~* i ran , ' was f Dunton t rom ~ v a him ' s away

    ^¦ ¦ h ^• H . ^^^^» " ^^* ^ U ^ ^^^^ ^^ " , ^ B ^^ " ^ " ^^ B ^^ ^^^^^ , ^ M ^ " ^^ W ^^^ B ^^ r ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ~^*^^ ~ ^^^ " ^^ - *^ ^^» ^™ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^» » » ¦ ^^»^» ^» ^^^ ^^^ ^ — ~ - ^^ " ^¦ — ^ , ^ p Benjam Lawrence in * Alsop stepped also into deserves my room a reference upon trial here . '

    w for ho he thus was describes succeeded his predecessor in his shop : b ' y Benjamin Dunton , , I

    yea Alsop rs , but was see a the first- rambling rajte bookseller fate of eome for men some ;

    for his Ben shop being to get a a wild commission aort of a in spark Monmouth , he left ' s army . ' E . Croft was at the ' TJ & rfee Golden

    lished Lions ' ' in The the Rig Poultry ht of Ty in thesr 1677 * when he

    pub-Pou From ltry booksellers the beginning cannot of t claim he last what centu we ry may the

    t in heir courtesy names term are fairl eminence fami . liar But to marry the fre of - quenter V < f V ^ ^ S A * « S ^* & o \^ A f li *•« , terary »* ^^ Jfc . «^ w ^ w b n * r y w -pat u y •• hs **!•«* . Thomas . a . . k j » ¦*— ' a , ^ a wn # Cookerill ^— ' ^^ ^^« b ^ ^^ i « . *» —* , «

    of Hall the , in ' Three the Poultry leggs and , ' Bible was part , against -publisher Grocers of ' , the ' New Description and State of England ' if

    ( 1701 hers ) , a curious and the and 32 interesting mo . edition book of to Blaok topo- - grap ;

    t more he names 's ' Prince of D Arthur . Jackson ' con and tains N . on Cliff its imprint , whose

    s hop Jt s . were Ford ' near of the to the Angel Poultry J . . Gray ' of the

    Cross Keys , , and R . Hett , , of the Bible , and

    Crown , each published during the first half of - - ¦>• - ' . ' - ¦ ' ^ fi »

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 16, 1889, page 1093, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16091889/page/11/