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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

abjudication of literary property, or the laws and terms to which autliora, aesignci-!), and pub- lishers are separately subject; with a catalogue of remariable bibles and common prayer books, from the infancy of printing to the present time. Extracted from the best authorities, by Henry Lemoine, bibliop. London.

1812, May. Died, John Drurv, printer and bookseller, Lincoln, aged seventv-two years. — He was postmaster of the city of Lincoln, and father of Mr. Dftiry, printer, at Stafford.

1813. The sheets a and z of Clarkson's Life of William Perm were worked off by an entirely cylindrical press, which, with the aid of two men, worked off eight hundred sheets within the hour.

1812, Aug. The printing office of Mr. Flood, with several houses, at Canterbury, entirely con- sumed by fire, which threatened great devastation.

1812, ^tj^. Daniel Lovell, proprietor of the Statesman, sentenced, in the court of king's bench, to pay a fine to the king of £500 ; to be imprisoned in Newgate for eighteen months, to be computed from the expiration of his former sentence ; and, at the ena of the further term, to find security for three years, himself in £1000, and two sureties in £500 each, for a libel upon the commissioners for the transport service.

1812, Oh. 9. Died, Daniel Ooilvv, book- seller, of Middle-row, Holbom, London, aged seventy years. He died at Southgate.

1812, Oct. 17. Died, Francis Hooson, many years proprietor, printer and publisher of the Cambridge Chronicle, aged seventy-five yeaJs. He had brought up a family of nearly twenty children.— Mrs. Hoason died Feb. 27, 1804. — Mr. Eklward Hodson, their eldest son, who had succeeded to the business, died in Oct. 1817.

1812, Oct. Died, John Bartlett, printer, at Oxford, who came to a sudden death by falling into a hole on the castle hill, where he was conducting some friends for the purpose of view- ing the city. He was in the 26th year of his age, and, after linjgering nine days, he was removed by death from the bosom of an affec- tionate family, and a numerous circle of friends.

1812, Nov. Died, Mvles Swinnnv, nearly fifty years printer and proprietor of the Z^trminjr- ham Chronicle. He died at Ashted, near Bir- mingham, aged seventy-four years.

1812, Nov. Died, John Walter, principal proprietor of the Times, London newspaper, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. It was re- ported that Mr. Walter had obtained a pension or sinecure of £700 a-year from Mr. Pitt.

1812, Dec. 9. John and Leioh Hunt, pro- prietors and editors of the Examiner, London Simday newspaper, were found guilty in the court of king's bench, of a libel on the Prince Regent, and sentenced to two years' imprison- ment each ; to pay a fine of £500 each ; and to find security for their good behaviour. The libel purported to be a reply to some fulsome verses on his royal highness, which had appeared in the Morning Pest, in doggrel verse.

1812. The Complete Family Bible, with illus- trative Notes, 2 vols. 4to. by the rev. John Styles.

1812, Dec. The university of Cambridge brought an action against the printer of Hey- wood's Remarks on the Memmrs of the riyht hon. Charles James Fox,* for not delivering to them the copy, which, after entry, ought to bare been delivered to them by the warehouse keeper of the stationers' company ; and, after a trial and solemn argument, a judgment was given against the printer — according to the 8th of Anne.f By this odious and oppressive tax, eleven copies of every new work was levied on the publisher. One copy being claimed, of right, by the British museum, Sion college, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in England — in Scotland, by the universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Perth ; the univemty and the advocates' libraxy, at Edinburgh— in Ireland, by Trinity college and the king's inns, Dublin. This is an unjust, because an unequal tax, for eleven copies are to be given, wbelbeta work is worth one guinea or ten; so that t publisher who prints 1,000 copies of a woil, which sells for one guinea, has to pay only eleven guineas out of 1,000 ; whereas, another, who publishes only 100 copies of a work worth ten guineas, has to pay a tax of 1 !0 guineas out of the same sum of 1,000. The above trial took place on the instigation of Edwd. Christian, esq., and the pamphlet he printed, in 1807, (noticed at page 826 ante) was to render impera- tive and unavoidable this heavy tax npon literature. In answer to varibus arguments, that the expense oi eleven copies seems allogelhet insignificant, and would hardly be felt, take the following facts :

Longman&Co.forthe rears 1812, 1813, & 1SU,^5(W White, Coduane, and Co. for the last 12 years on the quartos and folios alone, wittaoot

indodingr octavos aod others S289

Cadell and Davies, for the last four years on the

small paper copies 13(>S

On ten books to one pahlisher 5100

Daniels*8 Oriental Scenery S310

On Sibthoipc's Flora Oncca 3iOC

On Rccs'a Encyclopedia I<4li

Encydopeedia LoncUnensis l49C

Brittsh Gallery of Engravings IO(S

1812. The Friend, by S. T. Coleridge.J 1812. Poetical Magazine, published by Mr. Ackermann, of the Strand, London. It was in

1749, died Sept. 13, I80(S, and buried in Westininsta Abbey. For the HUtory of. the Reign 0/ Jama 11. «o, commenced by Mr. Fox, and finished by his nephew, the present lord Holland, Mr. William Miller, bookseller, of Albemarle-street, London, gave ^4,500, the largest sum then on record given for a work.
 * The right hon. Charles James Fox was born Jan. 13,

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t The Rights of IMerahire, or an imquirf into thepvUei id Jvstice of the ctatnu of certain public librariet on *U

the polishers and authors of she united kingdom, for eleee* copies on the best paper of every new publication. By JohQ Britton. 8vo. 1814, Longman and Co.

By the statute 6 and 7 William IV. c. 1 10. the six namol colleges — Sion college, London j the four universities of Scotland, and the king's-inn library, Dublin, are no longer liable to such copies : and they are to receive such annual sum from the government for any loss such Jibiary might sustain.

t Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St. Msry. Devraishire, in 1 773, and educated at Jesus' coUej^ Cso- bridgc, and was one of those who formed what vras cslleil the Lake School of poets. He died 1834.

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