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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

A verdict was giren to the plaintiff, and 408. damages foi exercising the said trade one month, according to the act of 5th Elizabetli. And on December 7, in the same court, Mr. John Ship- thorpe, printer, obtained a verdict and six months damages, against John Stevens, bookbinder, for exercising the trade of a printer, not having served a seven years apprenticeship.

1734. In the GentUman't Magazine for 1821, it is observed by a correspondent, that " from the invention of printing downwards so abverse were the circumstances attending the diffusion of Welsh literature, that there was not a printing- press in the principality until 1734, or there- abouts, when a. temporary one was set up by Mr. Lewis Morris, of Bod-Edeym, in Anglesey. This identical press is still in being at Trevirw, near Llanrwst.

'\7ZA,Aug. 31. Died, Joseph Downing, St. John's-lane, London, printer to the society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts. Mr. Downing was a contributor to Mr. Bowyer, and ranked by Negus as a well-affected printer.

1734. The Weekly Pott Bot/. This paper was established by a postmaster at Boston, in North America, and continued about twenty yeais.

1734, Oct. Dublin Literary Journal,'So. 1.

1734, Nov. 9. The Weekly Amuiement, No. 1.

1734. South Carolina Gazette, published at Charleston. There had been a newspaper with the same tide, published at Charleston, in 1731.

1735. Christopher Saur, a German, estab- lished a press at Germantown, in Pennsylvania, and the establishment was carried to considerable extent and eminence by his son. Thomas, in his Hiitory of Printing, xeTfOTXa of him, that" his was by far tjie most extensive book manufactory then, and for many years afterwards, in the British American colonies. It occasioned the establishment of several binderies, a paper-mill, and a foundry for English and German types." At this foundry, which was one of the earliest erected throughout the whole of British America, Saur cast types, not only for himself, but for other German printers. He also manufactured his own ink. Among other works, three editions of the German £t&M issued from hispress ; viz. in the years 1743, 1762, and 1776. The greater part of this last impression, consisting of 3000 copies, was most singularly and unfortunately disposed of. " The property of Saur was much injured by the revolutionary war, particularly by the battle of Germantown, in 1777. To pre- sen-e the residue of it from being destroyed by the British, he went to Philadelphia ; his estate was confiscated before the close of the war, and his books, bound and unbound, were sold : among these was the principal part of the last edition of the bible in sheets ; some copies of them had been before, and others of them were now, converted into cartridges, and thus used, not for the salvation of men's souls, but for the destruction of their bodies." In the summer of 1739, Saur commenced a newspaper in German.

1735. The duke d'Aiguillon erected a printing press at Verets, his country seat, in the province

of Touraine, at which was printed a coUectloB of French pieces, bearing the imprint of Jlncotm, in this year ; it is said uat only seven or twdvc copies of this work were struck off. — CotUm.

1735, April. In the GentUman't Magasiite im this month, is the following prize epigram : —

ON PRINTING.

Bvram and ooet, fiiea ftnd iniU do llieir labour In the printing art bestow i No wonder, thence snch laada c^Iomber xisc Dnlness and macrgota, calnnmy and Ilea.

1735, Auguit 17. Died, Geoboe Jahss, ooe of the common councilmen for the ward at Al- dersgate-without, and printer to the city of Lon- don. His widow carried on the business for some time, when the office of city printer was conferred on Henry Kent, printer, deputy of the ward of Broad-street

1735, Nov. 10. Died, Thomas Dean, of Mai- den, in Kent, aged 102 vears. When Unf Charles I. was beheaded, he was then tweo^ years of age, and was a fellow of UniTersitj col- lege, Oxford ; but being a Catholic, was de- prived at the revolution. He wrote some pieces of his religion, which were privately printed is the master's lodgings, and December 18, \6S\. he stood in the puloiy for concealing a libd : from that time he subsisted mostly on charity.

1735, Nov. 25. Died, Jacob Tonson, the second. He was the eldest son of Ridiaid Tonson, and nephew to the first Jacob Tonson; and it appears from his will, which was made August 16, and proved December 6, 1735, that he was a bookseller, bookbinder, and stationer, aS which businesses were carried on in his ows house ; and that he was also a printer, in part- nership with John Watts. The elder Jacob probably aJso carried on all these several occupa- tions. His will, which filled twenty -seven pages, written by himself, shews him not only to bare abounded in wealth, but to have been a just and worthy man — according to the printed accounts of that period he was at the time of his death worth £100,000. Ailer having devised his es- tates in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, and Wor- cestershire, and bequeathed no less a sum than £34,000 to his three daughters and his younger son, Samuel, and disposed of his patent betweeo his eldest sons Jacob and Richard, he mentiow his uncle, old Jacob Tonson, to whom he leaves fifty guineas for mourning; but, knowing his love of quiet and retirement, he says he would not burden him with the office of executor of his will. He, however, recommends his fiamily to his uncle's care, and exhorts all his children to remember their duty to their superiors and their inferiors, tenderly adding^ — " And so God bleas you all !" It appears by the grant and assign- ment of his uncle, that he was entitled to the collection of the kit-cat portraits, and that he had not long before his death erected a new room at Bam-elms, in which the nictures were then hung. Seventeen days after his death old Jacob Tonson made his will, in which he con- firmed a settlement that he had made on him, (probably at the time of his marriage) and ap-