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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

1722, Mau 24. Baher't Newt, or the Wkite- halt Journal; to be continued weekly. No. I, printed by John Baker,* by Mercer's cnapel.

1722, June 7. Englishman's Journal.

1722, Jtme 19. Thomas Sharp, printer of tbe Freeholders' Journal, tried and convicted at Guildball, for printing a Supplement to that paper. No. 10.

1722, Sept. 72. British Journal, No. 1. To this paper the celebrated letters sighted " Cato," were transferred from the London Journal, in which they had originally appeared in 1720.

1722, Dec. 8. Loyai Oosemator revived, or Garlaris Journal, No. 1. Altered, at No. 27, to Collin's Weekly Journal. Freeman Collins,t resided in the Old Bailey, and was a deputy oif one of the wards of the city.

1722, Nov. Monthly Advices from Parnas- sus [by Mr. Earbury, a noniuring clergyman.] Mr. Earbury was author of several practical works. He died October 3, 1740.

1722. Selections from Mist's Journal, two volumes 12mo. A republication of essays which had originally appeared in that newspaper, and undertaken to oppose the government of George I. and the claims of the protestant succession. Some of these essays, whicu include manners as well as politics, possess merit. — Drake.

1723, Feb. 1. The impression of a book ready to be published, entitled a Retriew of the History of England, containing the transactions aria occurrences of the three last reigns, viz., James the Second, William the Third, and Queen Anne, by Mr. Salmon, was seized ; but upon perusal by toe solicitor for the crown, wa^ found to contain nothing exceptionable in it. The whole im- pression was returned to Charles Rivington, the bookseller.

1723, Feb. 2. Died, Richard SARE,an eminent printer, of London, aged 68, and of whom Dun- ton says, " His face is full of certain briskness, and mixed with an air very sweet and agreeable. He has a large stock of good-nature and charity, in which lies its chiefest excellency: courage and justice make up the other part of his cha- racter. He prints for sir Roger L' Estrange, Dr. Wake, and other learned men, and has obliged the age with many curious pieces." Mr. Sare was one of the earliest and steadiest friends of the elder Mr. Bowyer. Mr. William Bowyer, junior, printed 1724, two editions of Death just Matter of Joy to all good Men ; a sermon preached

• His stature is of a Just proportion ; hU body erect and acUve i of a delicate conttttntion, yet so strong vithal, ai! If nature had dedgned him to be the strife of Mars and Ventu. — Dunton.

There was a Mr. Bazkr, bookbinder, in Wanrick-lane, of whom Dunton says, '* he lives In a crowd and hurry of business j yet (as was said of Mordecal Abbot) he loses not his reli^on in the midst of it, but keeps close to the private and public duties of divine worship. He binds so extraordinary well, that two of my customers gave parti- cular charge that do man in London should bind the books that they bought of me but Mr. Baker and Mr. Steel.

f He 18 a composition so made np of Justice and Indus- try that other prioters may imitate but cannot exceed. He is a moderate churchman, a sincere friend, and so ex- peditious in dispatch of business, that he printed more sheets for me In ten days than some others did in twenty. — Dunton,

at the parish church of St. Pancias, on Tuesday the Uth of February, 1723, at the funeral of Mr. Richard Sare, of London, bookseller. By George Stanhope, D.D., dean of Canterboiy, and chaplain inordinary to his majesty. Printed for Richard Williamson, near Gray's-inn Gate, Holbom. Dr. Stanhope, in the sermon, passes the following eulogium upon Mr. Sare : — "■ An acquaintance of more than thirty years oiables me to say much concerning him ; yet the little I shall add will, I hope, prevail with them also to be of the same opinion. His descent was from the clergy ; to which order his whole chantcler and conduct was not only suitable, but an orna- ment and a blessing: for he both believed, and lived, as became one so born and bied ; and was a true son of the Christian in general, and of the church of England in particular. And this, not firom fashion, or education, or interest only; bal upon principle and ju^^ent, and such weD- weighed conviction, as enabled him, with ' great rea£ness, to give an answer,' as St. Peter ex- horts, 1 Pet iii. 15, 'to every one that should ask him a reason of the hope that was in him.' His knowledge of books ana men, the candour and ingenuity of his temper, the obliging manner of his behaviour, and the grateful aclmowleii^- ments of any favours and benefits received, did indeed long time since effectually recommend him, not only to the countenance and conver- sation, but also the friendship and special re- gards of many persons, eminent both in post and learning."

Among the books printed by Mr. Sare, is one entitled, the Amours of Edward TV. an historical novel, by the author of the Turkish Spy.

1723, May 24. Died, Benjamin Tooke, im- mortalized as the bookseller of Swift and Pope, resided at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet-ctieet, leaving a considerable estate to his yoiuger brother, Andrew Tooke, for many vears master of the Charter-house school, as under and head master. For Dunton's character of Mr. Tooke see page 620, ante.

1723, May 29. Servetds, who was burnt at Geneva, Oct. 27, 1553, (see page 319, atUe) published a work upon the circulation of the blood, entitled Chnstianisimi Restitutio, and had been printed but a month before his death. The care they took to bum all the copies of it at Vienna, in Dauphiny, at Geneva, and at Frankfort, rendered it a book of the greatest scarcity. Mention is made of one copy in the catalogue of M. de Boze's books, which has been regarded as the only one extant. In relation to this work by Servetus, Dr. Sigmond says, "The late Dr. Sims, for many years president of the Medical Society of London, bequeathed to me his copy of Servetus, to which he has prefixed the following note: — ' The fate of this work has been not a little singular ; all the copies, except one, were burned ^ong with the author by the implactble Calvin. This copy was secretra by D. Colladon, one of the judges. After passing through the library of the landgrave of Hesse Casscl, it came into the hands of Dr. Mead,

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