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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

1707, Dee. 23. Died, John Newberv, manv I years a respectable bookseller in St Paul's chuicn yard, London, and who is characterized by sir John Hawkins as "a man ofgood understand- ing, and of great probity." He was the first of the profession who mtrodiuced the regular system of a juvenile library; and the several little books which he published for "masters and misses," of some or which he was the reputed author, were highly creditable to his head and his heart: he generally employed men of considerable ta- lents in such undertakings. See some particulars of an altercation between Mr. Newbeiy and Dr. Hill, in Gentleman't Magazine, v. xxi. p. 600.

1787. The Babler. These essays were written by Mr. Hugh Kelly,* which he contributed to Owen's Weekly Chr'&nicle, during the years 1763, 1764, 1766, and 1786. The subjecte are well varied; the moral is, for the most part good; and the style, though not perfectly correct, or much polished, is easy and perspicuous. — Drake.

Mr. Kelly also contributed to the same paper, the Memoirt of a Magdalene, under the title of Louisa Mildmay.

1767. The Nantieal Almanack, projected by Dr. Nevil Maskelyne.-)-

1768. Died, Peter Simon Fodrnieb, a French engraver, printer, and letter fonnder, and author of several ingenious treatises on the rise and progress of tjrpography. This eminent artist descended to the very origin of printing, for the sake of knowing it thoroughly ; and in 1737 published a table of proportions to be ob- served between lettess, in order to determine the height and relation to each other. His chief work is entitled Manual Typograpkiqae, in two

lamey, in the year I73{, and after a liberal achool eda- catloD, he was bound anventice to a star-maker, in Dub- lin. When out ofhlatliae he set oat forLondon, in order to procmc a llvdlbood bj Us business, bnt for want of •mployment, and being a stranger and fHendless, he was reduced to the ntmoit distress for the means of subsist- «oce. Becoming acgnalated with an attorney, be was em- ployed by lilm in oopyhig and transcribing, which be prosecnted with so macb propriety, that he earned about three guineas a-week ; bat this employment, thoogh tmOtslble, could not be agreeable to a man of liis original genius and lively torn of mind. From his accidental acquaintance with some txioksellers, in 176a, he became Uie editor of the £«br's JfuMwn and Court MagtMine, and other periodical publications, in which he wrote so many original essays, and pretty pisces of poetry, that his fame was quickly spread among the booksellera, and he found himself fully employed In various branches of that transi- tory kind of literature. In \7tS he produced his comedy of Falu Delieaep, which was received with such anlversal applause, as at once to establish his reputation as a dra- matic writer. The success of this play Induced Mr. Kelly to ooDtinae writing for the stage, for wlilch he produced several comedies, and the tragedy of ClemenHna. Un- happily for our author and his funily, the sedentary life to which his constant labour subjected him, proved the bane of his health ) for early in the year 1777, an abscess, framed in his side, after a few days illness, put a period to his life on the 3d day of Ftbmary, at his house in Gough- sqoare, in the SSfh year of his age. He left behind liim a widow and Ave children, of the last of which she was delivered about a month after his death. Mr. Kelly's stature was below the middle size. His comptezion was Cair, and his constitution lalher inclined to corpulency ; bnt he was remarkably cheerful, and a most pleasing and facetious companion. As a husband and a father tiia con- duct was singnlariy exemplary.
 * Hugh Kdl7 was bora on the banks of the lake (rf Kil.

t Dr. Maskelyne was born in London, Oct. 0, 1733, and died atriamstead house, Feb. t, 1811.

volumes octavo, and it may justly be said af Foumier that his genius illustrated and enlarged the typographic art. He was of the most plat- ing manners, and a man of virtue and pie^.

1768, Mim 1. A trial took place before Um master of the rolls, wherein the proprieton of the opera of Love in a Village were plaiatiilk, and a printer who had printed and publidied a pirated edition of the said poem, was defendant. A perpetual injunction was granted, and the defendant was obliged to account with the pbuD- tiSs for the profits of the whole number printed and sold, although die opeia was not, till after the printing of the pirated edition, entered at stationers' hall.

1768. George Allen, esq., of Grange, near Darlington, in the county of Duriiam, established a press in bis own house, and executed several pieces of typographical and antiquarian lone. — See Martin's Catalogue of Booki Privuuly Printed. London. 1824.

1768. Died, Jacob Ilive, a printer and type- founder, of Aldersgate-street, London. " nive," says Mr. Nichols, " who was somewhat disordered in his mind, was author of several treatises oa religious and other subjects. He published ia 17£^ an oration proving the plurality of worlds, that this earth is hell, that the souls of men are apostate angels, and that the fire to punish those confined to this world at the day of judgment will be immaterial, written in 1729, spokiai at Joiners' hall, pursuant to the will of his mother.* A second pamphlet, called A Dialogue betxttu a Doctor of the Church of England and Mr. Jacob Ilive, upon the subject of the Oration, 1733. This strange oration is highly praised in Hol- well's third part of Interesting Events rdating to Bengal. For publishing Modest Remarks m the late Bishop Sherlock^s Sermons, he was con- fined in Clerkenwell Bridewell from June Ifi, 1766, till June 10, 1758, during which period he published. Reasons offered for the Rrformatum of the House of Correction in Clerkenwell. In 1751 Mr. Ilive published a pretended translatioD of The Book of Jasher, said to have been made by Alcuin of Britain.

1768. The Holy Bible, with a commentarr by Dr. Dodd, from the notes of lord Clarendon,'^. Locke, &c., three vols, folio. London.

1768. Died, Samuel Fancourt, aged ninety years. He was the fiist promoter of circulating libraries in England.

1768, June 8. Died, Andrew Millar, one of the most eminent booksellers in the eighteenth century. Mr. Millar was literally the artificer of his own fortune. By consmumate industry, and a happy train of successive patronage and connexion, he rose to the highest station in his profession. He had little pretensions to learn- ing ; but had a thorough knowledge of mankind, and a nice discrimination in selecting his litenuy counsellors ; and also fortunate in bis assistants in trade. " Millar," says Boswell, " though no

« This talented but eccentric lady was "<'«'«**' daughter of Thomas James, noticed at page M7.

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