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 of J. F. Simon's ‘Animal Chemistry,’ with introduction and additions (2 vols. 8vo, 1845), for the Sydenham Society. 3. Translation of Julius Vogel's ‘Pathological Anatomy of the Human Body’ (1 vol., 1847). 4. ‘A Practical Treatise on the Domestic Management and most important Diseases of Advanced Life’ (1 vol., 1851). 5. Translation of C. G. Lehmann's ‘Physiological Chemistry’ for the Cavendish Society in 1851. 6. Translation of Rokitansky's ‘Pathological Anatomy of the Organs of Respiration’ for the Sydenham Society in 1852. 7. ‘Chemistry in its relations to Physiology and Medicine,’ 1860. He contributed a great number of articles to ‘Chambers's Encyclopædia,’ including nearly all articles upon anatomy, physiology, and medicine from D, and all articles upon chemistry from H. He published lectures and articles in the ‘Medical Times and Gazette’ and ‘Lancet,’ and contributed to ‘Nature,’ ‘Chambers's Journal,’ ‘All the Year Round,’ the ‘Journal of Mental Science,’ ‘Once a Week,’ and the ‘British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review.’ He was elected F.R.S. in 1850, and was member of many learned societies.

[Information from Mrs. Day.]  DAY, JAMES (fl. 1637), verse-writer, published in 1637 a volume of devotional verse, entitled ‘A New Spring of Divine Poetrie,’ 4to, with an acrostic dedication ‘To Mistris Bridget Rudge’ and commendatory verses by H.G. and T.J. The two principal poems in the volume are ‘The Worldes Metamorphosis’ and ‘Christ's Birth and Passion;’ these are followed by some shorter poems, which have more conceit than elegance. From the commendatory verses it appears that the book was a youthful production.

[Corser's Collectanea.]  DAY, DAYE, or DAIE, JOHN (1522–1584), printer, was born in St. Peter's parish, Dunwich, Suffolk, in 1522 (, History of Suffolk, ii. 274). His master may have been Thomas Gibson, whose device, a sleeper awakened by one who points to the rising sun, he used with the punning motto, ‘Arise, for it is Day.’ The first book to which his name is affixed was ‘The Tragicall Death of David Beaton, Bishop of St. Andrewes,’ in 1546, with William Seres. Down to 1550 most of his books were produced with the same partner. His first house was ‘in Sepulchres parishe, at the signe of the Resurrection, a little above Holburne Conduit.’ About 1549 he removed to Aldersgate, ‘and builded much upon the wall of the city, towards the parishe gate of St. Anne’ (, Survey of London, 1754, i. 18). In September 1552 he had a license for Poynet's ‘Catechism,’ which Edward VI ordered to be published in Latin and English, but Raynold Wolf, as privileged printer of Latin books, put in a claim. It was finally agreed that ‘they bothe may joyne in pryntyng of the said catechisme’ (, Burghley State Papers, 1740, p. 128). It was printed by Day in English and by Wolf in Latin in 1553. Day was a zealous reformer, and suffered imprisonment with John Rogers, afterwards going abroad for a time (, Acts and Monuments, 1684, iii. 107). He returned, and is mentioned as a freeman in the original charter granted to the Stationers' Company in 1556. He printed but three or four things during Mary's reign, one a folio Sarum missal in 1557. Between July 1557 and 1558 he had license for several small pieces, the first entry in the ‘Registers’ being for an ‘Almanack and Pronostication of Kennyngham’ (, Transcript, i. 75). After this period of inactivity, his publications show a marked increase of typographical excellency. ‘The Cosmographical Glasse,’ by William Cuningham, 1559, folio, printed in an italic type, with many woodcuts, is a specimen of this improvement. The book contains a device at the end, frequently used by Day, consisting of a skeleton stretched on a tomb. He was fined by the Stationers' Company for printing without license 2 Oct. 1559, and was only admitted to the livery 6 July 1561 (ib. i. 124, 161). He was one of the earliest English music-printers. In 1560 he produced his service-book, ‘Certaine notes set forth in foure and three parts to be song,’ the first church music book in English, reprinted in 1565. His notation differs from that of Grafton. In 1582 he caused a new fount of notes to be made, with letters joined to them. In 1563 he produced the first English edition of Foxe's ‘Martyrs,’ under the title of ‘Actes and Monuments of these latter and perillous Dayes,’ a work of considerable size and expense, illustrated with many excellent woodcuts. Four editions, each with additions, were issued by Day down to 1583. ‘The Worckes of Thomas Becon,’ 3 vols. folio, was another important undertaking. He became a busy member of the Stationers' Company, being warden in 1564, 1566, 1571, and 1575, and master in 1580.

In 1560 he brought out Archbishop Parker's translation of the Psalms, the first by one person of the entire psalter in English metre. He printed in 1563 ‘the whole Psalmes, in four partes, which may be sung to all musical instrumentes,’ to which Tallis was a contributor. This is the earliest collection of psalm-tunes published in England. In 1569