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made in this country.' This letter satisfactorily explains the nature of the process pursued by Van der Mey, and proves that the doubts which hare been expressed respecting his right to the appellation of iuYentor of stereotype printing were not entertained without foundation. The misconception which has arisen on the subject, has been chiefly occasioned by the incorrect statement which appeared in the Niew Algtmtin Konst en Letter Bode, for 1798. In the swte- ment here alluded to, of which a translation will be found in the tenth volume of the Philosophi- cal Magazine, page 276, Van der Mey is repre- sented as having ' prepared and cast the plates' an expression which certainly is not warranted by the fact."

As far as is known, Van der Mey printed no- thing else in this manner : and the art of pre- paring solid blocks was lost at his death, or, at feast, was not afterwards employed.

1701. In Brown's History of Nonirich, the following notice occurs under this year; " The art of printing, which had been discontinued many years, was revived by Francis Burges, ^ho opened a printing office near the red well." A copy of the list of Norfolk preachers, appointed by the bishop of Norwich for the year 1701, printed by this Burges, occurs among Bagford's collections in the British museum; it was sent to John Bagford by bishop Tanner, and at the bottom contains a note in the handwriting of the bishop. In a book entitled. Some Observations 4m the we and oriyinall of the noble art of Print- ing, by Fr. Burges, 8vo. Norwich, 1701, the author observes, that " the first day that ever printing was at Norwich, was Saturday the 27th of September, 1701 : and this was the first book that ever was printed and published there." However corteet or erroneous the latter part of this statement may be, it decidedly proves that Bur^ knew nothing of Anthony Solempne's previous printing at Norwich, and consequently attests the extreme rarity of those early speci- mens, even upwards of a century ago. — See page 340, ante. In Bum's catalogue for 1827, (No. 2089) occurs a book thus announced : " Thomas Stackhouse (of Norwich) Mutual duties of El- ders and People, 4to. Printed for Edward Giles, Norwich, 1696." This book perhaps was printed far Giles, at some other towu; and this opinion is confirmed by a sermon upon a man executed at Norwich, which was printed in London " for Edward Giles,* bookseller in Norwich," in 1696.

1701. A printing establishment was erected in the monastery of Sn aoof, situated in the midst of a lake, near to Bucharest the capital of Wal- lachia, by Anthimus, archbishop of Wallachia,

■rfaich may b« a serviceable liint to the boolcsellerB in London. ThepiousandleaniedDr.Collings was his great bienii he has met with very good success in his way; bat the bookseller* in the oounfy cannot in a settled way cither mln or enrich themselves so soon as those in Lon- don, in regard they have not the temptation, nor indeed the opportnnlty to print much; but this is no more ap- plicable to Mr. Gyles than to any other, so far oat of town. He is an honest man. I know him to be so. — Vunton,
 * He evens yearly with those he is concerned with,

and amply supplied by him with Arabic, Greek, and lUyrian types. Scnnurrer, in his Bibliotkeea Arabiea, notices a Greek and Arabic Mismi, executed here in the year 1701. The volniDe was printed at the expense of John Constantioe Bessaraba, the waywode of Wallachia, and by him g^tuitously distributed to the Arabian priests. Schnurrer states it be tolerably weD printed; notices its being a book of extreme rarity m Europe, but he himself had chanced to pick up a copy for a small sum, at a public auction in Leipsic.

1701, Jan. 1. A New Observator on the pre- sent Times. No. 1.

1701, Jan. The Monthly Miscellany, or Me- moirs for the Curious.

1701. The Post Angel. Printed by G. Croona.*

1701, June 6. The Proceedings of the King's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Termi- ner and Gaol Delivery of Newgate.

1701, Julys. The New StaU of Europe, hotb as to publick Transactions and Learning; with impartial Observations thereon. No. 8.

1702, Jan. 1. Died, SAMUELf Green, the founder of an extensive family of printers in North America. He succeeded Stephen Daye4 as printer to the college of Cambridge, about the year 1648, or beginning of 1649, and during fifty years, under government, was the manager ana conductor of the press at Cambridge, and prosecuted the art extensively and with sacces. Under the auspices of the college and of the London corporation for propagating Christianity among the Indians, he undertook and completed more than one edition of the scriptures, the psalter, a catechism, and other books in the Indian language, in the year 1653, &c. an ample and interesting account of which is given by Thomas, together with a list of ninety-five pieces, dated 1649—1692, proceeding from his prest:. Thomas adds, " Soon after his decease, the printing materials were removed from Cambridge, and probably sold. It does not appear that the cor- poration of the college owned any types aAer this time, till about the year 1718, when Mr. Thomas Hollis, of London, a great benefactor

eobites, but I take him for a man of more sense; howercr, that is no more essential to his character under the notioa of a printer, than the recommendation of an under groom to prince Rapert, which ran in such terms as these, that be was a good churchman, bad a great Taloe for the com- mon prayer, when, alas 1 prince Rupert did not want his horses should be dressed according to the liturgy of the diurch of England. Mr. Croom is a fair dealer, onder- stands his business, and these arc the life of matter. He has always been obliging to me, and formerly printed tat me The Figvrine Liturgg, and of late several sheets of the Post .Angel.— Dunton.
 * Some would Insinuate as though he favoured the Ja-

t See page 4}a, and for Stephen Oreen read Stnd Green.

t Daye continued to reside at Cambridge, where be dkd December 22, 1668. Thomas observes, that he had act been able to find but few books printed by Daye, and in no one of these was his name to be found. He girts a list of thirteen pieces executed by the printer between the years lOsg and 1640. among which are the laws of tke colony, and two editions of the psalms in metre, trmulated far the use of the saints, especially in New Encland, dated l&to. The book is so scarce in America, that Mr. Tbooas could only find one copy, and that wanted the tltle-I((t. A perfect copy is in the Bodleian library at Oxford.