Page:A dictionary of printers and printing.djvu/801

 793

HISTORY OF PRINTING.

same premises, which he commenced in conse- quence of the second son's seveie Ulness and subsequent death.

1796, May 8. Kyd Wake, a journeyman printer of London, was convicted of insulting his majesty in his passage to and from the par- liament house, by hissing and using several in- decent expressions, and was sentenced to be im- prisoned and kept to hard labour in Gloucester jail for the term of tive years, solitary confine- ment ; to stand once in the pillory ; and to find security in jGIOOO for his good behaviour for ten years. He had his head shaved, and wore the prison dress, consisting of a blue and yellow jacket and trousers, a woollen cap, and a pair of wooden shoes. Wake at last came to an un- timely end, being crushed to death between the wheels of a waggon and a post in Paul's chain, St Paul's church yard, March 15, 1807.

1796, 7un« 6. Died, Damiel Prince, many years a very eminent bookseller and printer at Oxford, of which he was a native. During the long period of his being manager of the univer- sity press, many valuable publications of course passed under his superintendence. Those in which he most prided himself will he seen by the following list, which not long before his death he transmitted to Mr. John Nichols, of London, as a curionty :

Bladutone't Magna Charia, 1769, 4to.

Marmora OjonUmia, 1 783, folio.

£Mer< SfMVl* Cortehpltorum, 1770, foUo.

BlackstoDe's Cammmtarta, fear vols. 4to. tbiid edit.

1770, ttc. Kennicotf s HArem Bible, two vols, folio, I77S. OttnniM Optra, ten vols. Ito. 1784. Bndlejr's Obtenatimu and Tabltf, all printed in 1788,

but not pablished for some yeus after.

Mr. Prince married a sister of Dr. Hayes ; and died in New College lane, Oxford, in his eighty- fifth year, to the loss of many persons who were the objects of his bounty, and by all who had the happiness to enjoy his friendship.

1796, Aug. 8. Died, John Nicholson, book- seller, at Cambridge, aged sixty-six years, «vho by unremitting attention to business for forty- five years, acquired considerable property, and was in the university better known by the name of Mapi or Pictures, from his constant habit of offering those articles at the different cham- bers. He established a very capital circu- lating library, including most of the lecture books read in the university, and also many of the best and scarcest authors in various other branches of literature; by which means the students were enabled to furnish themselves with the works of the best writers at a small expense. He presented to the university a whole-lengdi portrait of himself (painted by Keinagle) loaded with books, which bangs in the staircase of the public library, and under it a print engraven bom it

1796. Thomas Scott, rector of Aston Sand- ford, in Buckinghamshire, published a family Bible, in numbers, which proved the ruin of Bellamy the publisher. The work was sold by the assignees, but Mr. Scott not having parted

with the copyright, printed another in oppoation to it, and gained his object. Four volumes, 4to. dth edition, 1810.

1796, Sept. 25. Died, Stephen Fletcher, a bookseller at Oxford, in which city he was bom, and where he died in the eighty-second year of his age.

1796, Oct. Died, Joan Crocse, printerofthe Norfolk Chronicle, for thirty-five years, and dur- ing that period was always distinguished for his integrity and goodness of heart. He died at Norwich, aged fifty-eight years, and was suc- ceeded in his business by Messrs. Stephenson and Matchelt.

1796. Died, Edward Johnston, bookseller. He was the son of William Johnston, a book- seller of long-established reputation, in Lud- gate-street, w-ho relinquished the business to his son about the year 1770 ; and was afterwards appointed stationer to the board of ordnance. He died, at a very advanced age, in 1804. Mr. Edward Johnston, who inherited a good fortune from his maternal grandfather, Edward Owen, printer of the Gazette; retired from biraness, and died in Dublin.

1796, Oct. i)te(j, Thomas Bailey, warehouse- man at the printing office of the university of Cambridge ; a man of very singular character. The week before his death, being apparently in good health, he ordered his coffin to be made of red deal, in the rough, which he garnished with herbs, giving also orders to be buried without a shroud ; and even proceeded to hire and pay his bearers, predicting his own death to take place on the Saturday following, — ^he lived, however, until the Wednesday.

1796, Oct. 26. Died, Edward Jobmsom, bookseller, many years partner with Mr. Dodd, in Ave-Maria-lane, and afterwards bis successor. He died at Reinite,in his eighty-seventh year.

1796. Died, Mr. Potts, an eminent printer and bookseller in the city of Dublin, and pro- prietor of Saunder't New$ Letter.

1796, Nov. 20. Joseph Burks was sentenced in the court of king's bench, to be imprisoned in Coldbath-fields, to hard labour for two years, and at the end of that period to enter into recognizances in the sum of £600, for his good behaviour seven years, for publishing a libel, A Summary of the Duties of Citizenthip.

1796, Dee. 10. Died, Sackville Parker, a bookseller at Oxford, in which city he was bom, and where he died in his eighty-ninth year.

1796, Jan. 7. The Reaper, by Mr. Maude, of Wensley Dale, and was originally published in the York Chronicle ; these essays were continued till Thursday June 22, 1779.

1796, Jan. The Monthly Mirror.

1796. The TriJUr, published at Edinburgh.

1796, March. The Watchman. This lilUe miscellany was printed at Bristol, though pub- lished in London; and was the production of S. T. Coleridge, well known to the public for the sublimity and originality of his poetical effusions. It closed wiui the tenth number.

1796, March. The Monthly Magaxine, No. I.

VjOOQIC