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ton, Peake, Pigot, Pouncey, Record, Roberts, Pye, Smith, Sparrow, Thomas, Vivares, Watts, Williams. The views, were re-publisbed, on pages distinct from the letter-press, in large 8to. size. This first work completed, and naving exceeded the most sanguine expectations of himself, and his friend and publisher, Master Samuel Hooper, Mr. Grose applied himself to one more professional, Military Anliquitiet res- pecting a Hittory of the Englith Army, from the Conqnett to the Pretent Time, in two rols. 4to. 1786 — 1788, illustrated with a great variety of plates, and published, like the preceding work, in numbers. But previous to this, havmg, in the coarse of his researches for it, in vain sought for some treatise exhibiting a series of authentic delineations and descriptions of the different kinds of armour and weapons used by our ancestors, he published A Treatiie on OHcient Armour end tro^ioiu, illustrated by plates taken £com the original armour in the tower of London, and other arsenals, museums, and cabinets, 1785, 4to. to which he gave a supplement, in 1789, in 4to. the plates of boUi, in a free painter- like manner, etched by Mr. John Hamilton, the vice-president of uie societv of artists of Great Britain. In 1785, he published a CUuti- cal Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ; which it would have been for his credit to have suppress- ed; and a Gwde to Health, Beauhf, Honour, and Bichet ; being a collection of humorous advertisements, pointing out the means to obtain those blessings, with a suitable introductory pre&ce. In 1786, the History of Dover Cattle, by the rev. William Darrell, chaplain to queen Elizabeth. The Latin manuscript from which this work is printed, was transcribed from the original, in toe librarr of the college of arms, under the inspection of the lato. William Oldys, esq. elegantly printed in 4to. and 8vo. the same size as the large and small editions of the Antiquities of England and Wales, with ten beautiful views, finely engraved iirom drawings taken on the spot, by Francis Grose, esq. The English Antiquary, is among Mr. Kay of Edin- burgh's caricature portraits. The following epitaph, proposed for him, was inserted in the St. Jameft Chronicle, May 26.

Here Ilea Fnuidi OroM.

On Thunday, May IS, ITgl,

Death put an end to

His Viem and Protpeetf.

1791. The Holy Bible, large-8vo. and small, 12mo. with ornamental engravings, by Titler, London. This is called the Cabinet and Unique Bible ; it has no side notes, and is beautifully printed. A few copies were worked off in 4to.

1791. The Book of Common Prayer, with an introduction to the services, finely printed by Didot, of Paris, 24mo; with a set of cuts executed under the direction of Lavater, the physiognomist.

1791. Printing introduced into the island of GaerBsey.

1791. The second iaUy evening newspaper commenced.

1791. The Patriot; a small collection or political essays, publi^ed in one of the daily newspapers in Dublin, and reprinted by Debrett, a bookseller in London, in 1792.

1791. The Derby Herald, printed and pub- lished by Charles Sambroke Ordoyno, who, in 1792, removed to Nottingham.

1791. The Glasgow Courier, published on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

1791. The Lauyer's and Magistrates Maga- zine, published by £. Bentley; discontinued 1794.

1791, Sept. Monthly Extracts, No. 1. Forms four volumes.

1791, Oct. 21. Died, Willum Wabd, who was for more than thirty years master of the fine grammar school, at Hinckley, in Leicestershire, and the first person who introduced the art of printing into that town. He was the author of the Scripture Spelling Book, 1762. His eldest son, John Ward,* was for some time an assistant to his fiither, but left the printing office to join his relative Mr. Thomas short, in the wool and hosiery business. Sarah, his daughter, succeeded him in the printing business, and was for many years the principal printer and bookseller in that town ; after her death, Mr. Short succeeded to her business, and carries on a respectable trade.

1791, Nov. 4. Died, Thomas Harrison, many Tears printer of the London Gazette; some- time deputy of the ward of Castle Baynard; and was master of the company of stationers in 1784. Mr. Harrison had l^en a ion vtoont, and was very generally respected by a large circle of acquaintance.

1792, Jan. 2. Died, Wiluam Datbnport, a young man of considerable ability, the son of a clergyman at Leicester, who had been appren- ticed to William Strahan, on the recommenda- tion of Dr. Johnson, succeeded Mr. Fletcher, (formerly the printer of a newspaper at Cam- bridge, who died in 1790) asoneof Mr. Bowyer's annuitants.

1792, Jan. 14. Died, Joseph Jackson, a celebrated type-founder in Dorset-street, Lon- don. He was born in Old-street, September 4, 1733, and received his education in tnat neigh- bourhood; whence he was apprenticed to Mr. Caslon. He was exceedingly tractable in the common branches of the business; and had a great desire to leam the method of cutting the punches, which is, in genend, kept profoundly secret. His master, and his masters father, con- stantly locked themselves in the place where they, performed this part of the art ; and in order to accomplish his object, Jackson bored a hole througn the wainscot, and was thus, at different times, able to watch them through the process and to form some idea how the whole was per- formed : and he afterwards applied himself at every opportunity to the finishing of a punch. When ne had completed one to his own mind he

Leicestershire, and eminent printer, dedicated the second edition of Ills HMon of Hinckkp, foUo, 1813. Mr. Ward died in Avcost, 1830, aged seTeoty-one years.
 * To this gentleman Mr. John Nichols, the historian of

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