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    f^ The Publishers'Circular ' Dec^ J ,® 1...

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    188 Fleet Street : December 1880 .

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    I 7 IN the accordance publications ^ wit...

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    F^ The Publishers'circular ' Dec^ J ,® 1...

    f ^ The Publishers ' Circular ' Dec ^ J , ® 1 il ¦ 1 ¦

    188 Fleet Street : December 1880 .

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    I 7 In The Accordance Publications ^ Wit...

    I 7 IN the accordance publications with of our 1880 usual . Numericall custom we y present they are our exceeded readers by with those a tabulated of 1879 , although summary the of

    : ; difference m m sm ^ is not great —less * than i ^ 150 1 ^* - " \ . Of / \ ~ t * course _ - antici L- _ * pation 1 * would ^ _ T T naturall _ I-. 11 y point Cj to "a an * v increase in the number of volumes issued from the press in some such ratio as we find the

    ; population of this country advancing year by year to a higher figure ; but the commercial ; depression of these last times no doubt has had its influence in checking literary production

    under or at all the events circumstances the printing , that of the that check which has the not brain been has found produced more serious . It is . something , perhaps

    We do not know that a comparison of the two years' tables suggests any further remark except that January is always liable to seem rather capricious in its show of figures . This is

    accounted for by the few days more or less by which at the end of the year the account is necessarily contracted in order to get the statement ready to show in print as the actual year

    closes . ANALYTICAL TABLE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1880 .

    B ^ T a New Books ; b New Editions , ( P * - * < - " - _ + _ .. ^ " —— - = _ All-. ' ,- ' i — - - " = " " ' ¦ ' " i _ . _ __ 1 . .. . _ . _ . . _ - _ . ii I . 11 tin — ¦ - I . ¦ . - ¦ . u I I ————— | Total of Books Subjects Jan , Feb . Mar , Apr , May June July Aug . Sept . Oct . Not . Dec . on each Subject

    f for or the the Ygjw Year ' ' " ~~~ _„__ ' i ¦ '~~~ ~~ ~~~ ~ 1 . TheologySermons \ a 62 29 42 70 96 56 40 42 40 | 67 93 71 708

    Biblical , , & c . . . , / b 16 19 20 S 3 35 26 15 4 22 15 SO 32 267 975

    2 . Educational , ClassiO a 47 30 48 29 54 31 36 49 37 60 40 46 507 cal , andPhilo ] og ical / r 510 ^~ ^^ *^ 8 13 17 w 16 — — 13 ^ — 12 — 9 — 9 — 20 ¦ - ^ 24 —'' ^™ ^ 17 * y j 168 ^ ^^ ^^

    675 3 . Juvenile Works and \ a 41 30 19 20 15 26 15 17 2-3 95 148 113 564 Tales 6 16 15 15

    . . . J 6 6 12 6 10 5 22 26 16 155 719 4 . NovelsTalesand \ a 20 19 25 31 35 44 28 29 28 53 34 34 380

    , , other Fiction . . J j 10 20 23 28 27 16 10 16 16 14 9 11 200 12 11 13 580

    5 . Law , Jurisprudence , ^ a 7 8 5 6 1 8 7 3 6 87 & c . . . J & 344586354 178 58

    145 6 . Political Economy , and Trade SociaH arid tf 6 V 16 2 i ; 13 1 2 3 6 28 10 33 1 20 2 13 1 15 6 7 11 15 12 204 22

    Commerc Commerce e . . j . ^ * -------- - ^ — 226 nrt . ^ 7 . Arts , Science , and \ a 28 28 34 18 43 26 25 23 22 47 27 41 362

    Illustrated Works . J 6 4 9 10 3 13 9 13 8 11 14 9 14 117 479 8 . Voyages G ^ ap lncal Travels Ke , I I a 10 7 2 19 a 17 3 2 9 1 17 16 11 7 24 6 ! 10 7 25 2 23 8 12 27 211 U ocaiui

    . ; j znl ^ 9 , History , Biograph ! y , a 18 22 14 21 29 19 23 20 14 3 <> 34 36 286 & c . . . / b 6 5 8 6 11 10 2 6 9 86 77

    . . . __ 363 10 . Poetry und tliel rt 26 10 9 13 12 8 11 4 7 U 8 13 132

    Drama . . . / b 3 4 4 6 1 5 4 7 7 4 10 65 187 2 / i 2 17 ii 17 1 15 iu 10 Ji t » 12 20 z-u 40

    ; j 11 11 . . Year Xear Jdooka Booka und m » Q 1 I aGl ci 01 aa od *^ . < < 2 . 6 * i ^ iu 77 // 363 553 I Seriala in Volumes . / b 11

    jj 1 % . Medicine , Surg « ry A a 17 ^ *> 17 24 6 15 10 b 10 12 8 148 I II & & cc . . . . . . .. J / 6 /> 6 fi 2 2 4 4 a 3 7 7 6 6 2 Z 4 4 8 8 1 1 616 6 6 54 54 wl <)

    wl *"" 13 . Bellea & stye , Mon Lettres ograp , E hs « -l ^ a ° Q 6 6 d s ° q 5 Z 11 a ° 6 4 ° 6 7 y 6 17 W y 11 0 U 86 80 « ° 166 .,.

    c . . . J ° ' 14 | . Miscellaneous hlet in - * a 2 G | 4 16 ¦ 25 29 2 g 24 u 15 28 29 26 271 p 6 0 6 7 14 8 7 8 6 4 9 82

    not ! ^ Sermons i ^ . . J _^ ° _ . ^ _ i _ . _ _ i 7 _ « f _ -J . _ „_ „ _ JL . _^ 3 / J ^

    459 350 412 461 599 463 355 344 349 607 668 671 () 708

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1880, page 1342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121880/page/2/