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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 129 112. Booksellers and Printers in Devon and Corn- wall IN THE Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. — Having for a number of years collected trade labels, advertisements and other items connected with booksellers and printers in the two westernmost counties, I have thrown together the following by way of Addenda to the late Rev. J. Ingle Dredge's work on the subject, which he privately reprinted from the Western Antiquary 1885-91. The paginal references are to that work. The references to the Exeter Flying Post are obtained from an article in the same pub- lication, vol. v., p. 163, entitled " Trewman's Exeter Flying Post," by the late Mr. R. Dymond, F.S.A. About 1793-6 was published The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce and Manufacture. It was comprised in four 8vo volumes, with a subsequent Appendix volume, and was undated. It went through more than one edition, and the canvassers in some towns did their work much more thoroughly than those in others ; Exeter, for instance, was well done, giving the Street in the addresses of the trades- men ; Plymouth, on the other hand, was less carefully done, appearing to be much less complete, and only the name and calling of the tradesman being given. Hence the fact of any particular person's name not appearing in the Directory is not conclusive evidence that he was not in business at the time. I have laid this work under contribution for the purpose of the present paper, initialling the extracts U.B.D. J. S. Attwood. Axminster. Butcher, Samuel, Printer and Perfumer. — U.B.D. Barnstaple. MuRCH (F.), p. 90. — Mr. Murch, Bookseller in Barnstaple. — Exeter Flying Post, Sept. 2, 1763. Sold by F. MURCH, Bookseller, Printer, and Book-binder, In the High-Street, BARNSTAPLE. Small printed label removed from book dated 1790. The accompanying illustration (very slightly enlarged) of another fine label of Murch's is reproduced from a block kindly lent by the manager of the Publishers' Circular. The original label is in my K