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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

carriage towards dissenters, I would call him the Fhcenix of learned licensers." Mr. Bohun was a native of Suffolk ; the time of his dg^th is not ascertained, but is supposed to htyTnVr" place about this year.

l702,Am-il 1. Obsenator. Printed byJ.How.*

1702. The WeeklvRemembrancer.

1702, April 23. The Form of the Proceeding to the Coronation of her moit excellent Majesty Queen Amte.

1702, Sept. 9. The Secret Mercury; or, the Adrenture of Seven Days.

1702. Poeticd Obiervator.

1703. Samuel de Tournes, a celebrated printer at Geneva, flourished at this time. Indi- viduals of this family were settled at the same place in the end of the last, and former part of this century. To some of their descendants, who were living at Lyons and Geneva, Wolfius dedicated his Monumenta Typographica, as the most ancient family of printers, who were equally distinguished by their typographical skill and by Uieir personal virtues.

1703. In the convocation of the clergy of the lower house, a complaint was exhibited against the printers of the Bible, for the careless and defective manner in which it was printed by the patentees. The edition complained of was one printed by Hayes, at Cambridge, in 1677 and 1678 ; and an edition in folio printed at London, in 1701. The printers continued, however, to print the bible carelessly, with a defective type, on bad paper ; and when printed, to sell uem at an exorbitant price.

1703. A pamphlet was published this year with the following strange title : the Deformity of Sin Cured, a sermon, preached at Michael's, Crooked-lane, before the prince of Orange ; by the rev. James Crookshanks, sold by Matthew Dowton, at the Crooked Billet, near Cripplegate, and by all other booksellers. The words of the text are, "Every crooked path shall be made straight." The prince before whom it was preached, was deformed in his person.

1703. Died, Edwabd Millinoton, an emi- nent bookseller and auctioneer, who was con- cerned in most of the sales for above forty years, and of whom Dunton says, he commenced and continued auctions upon the authority of Hero- dotus, who commends that way of sale for the disposal of the most exquisite and finest beauties to their amorotot, and further informs the world, that the sum so raised was laid out for the por- tions of those to whom nature had been less kind ;

the trsde of in^ntliir. He printed the Com relating to mjr second wtfe, which will be inserted in the sixth stage of my life, revised and corrected. Mr. How is generons and firank, and speaks whatever he thinks ; which, in spite of the highflyers, has given him an honest character. He is a tnte lover of his queen and country, and I b^eve would be as willing to saciiflce his life and fortune for the good of ^ther as the honest countryman, or master Tntchin himself. He was a great sufferer in king James's reign, and has had the fate of being a traTcUer ; but being an honest man at the bottom, he is blessed wherever he goe«. Be is now settled in Gracechnrch.street; and, being a ipnat prcilactor (as we see by the Lombm Spt and the Ob- ••raotor, &c.) is like to increase apace.— Dntfim.
 * He wu ■ bookseller for many years, and now follows

so that he'll never be forgotten while his nameis Ned, or he a man of remarkable elocution, wit, sense, and modesty ; characters so eminently his, that he would be known by them among a thon- sand. Millington (from the time he sold Dr. Annesly's libraiy) expressed a particular friend- ship for me. He was originally a bookseller, which he left off, being better cut oat for an auctioneer: he had a quick wit, and a wonderful fluency of speech. There was usually as mndt comedy in his once, twice, thrice, as can be met with in a modern play : " Where," said Milling- ton, " b your generous flame for learning ? Who but a sot or blockhead would have money in his pocket and starve his brains T' Though I sup- pose he had but a round of jests. Dr. C

once bidding too leisurely for a book, says Mil- lington, " Is this your Primitive Christianitg ?" alluding to a book the honest doctor had pub- lished under that title. He died in Cambrioge; and I hear they bestowed an elegy on his me- mory, and design to raise a monument to his ashes. An elegy upon the lamented death of Edward Millington, the famous auctioneer.

1703, Nov. 27. Great storm in England.* Mr. John Tavlob, bookseller, in Patenioster-row,f having experienced a merciful preservation during the great storm ; and being at that period a member of the (Baptist) church meeting, litUe Wild-street, Lmcoln's-inn-fields, instituted an annual sermon, to perpetuate the recollecti<»i of that affecting occurrence.

1703, Aug. 3. Heraditut Rident ; a Dialogs between Jest and Earnest concerning the Times.

1703. The Daily Courant. No.l.

1704. About this period the celebrated family of printers, Barbod, settled in Paris; their press had been distinguished for correctness and neat- ness in the middle of the sixteenth centurr. At Paris, Joseph Gerard Barbou continued the col- lection of Latin classics in 12mo. which Con- stelier had begun. Constelier had published Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Sal- lust, Virgil, Nepos, Lucan, Phasdrus, Horace, Velleius, Eutropius, Juvenal and Persius, Mar- tial and Terence. Barbou, from whW the whole collection generally takes its name, pub- lished C8esar,Gurtius, Tacitus, Plautus, Seneca, Ovid, Cicero, Justin, both the Plinies and Livy, and also some of the later Latin authon: in the same form. The present owner of the whole publication, Aug^ste Delalain, has added to the collection four volumes, and sells the whole set of seventy-seven volumes, dune in boards, at 350 francs ; bound at 600 francs.

1704. Fbeoerick Rotbscholtz, a book- seller of Nuremberg, flourished at this period, and acquired a distinguished name in the worid. of literature. The list of his productions is very

puted at near ^^00,000 sterling. At Bristol it was about ^100,000. In the whole it was supposed that the loss was greater than that produced by the great Are in Loodos, 18M, wlilch was estimated at ^«,0M,ooo.
 * The damage in the city of London only, was com-

t Deals very mocb, and Is very honest He is indos- trlons and obHging, and Ms prindptea arc moderate.— Dtrntan.