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Bookkeeping, A Manual of, for Booksellers, Pub- lishers, and Stationers, on the principle of Single, converted periodically into Double Entry. By a Bookseller. 8vo, London, 1850.

Book-lore : a Magazine devoted to Old-Time Litera- ture. 4 vols., London, 1884-6. Sec Indexes throughout.

'Bookman,' The, Directory of Booksellers, Pub- lishers, and Authors. 4to, London, 1893.

Book-Prices Current. Being a Record of the Prices at which Books have been sold at Auction, the Titles and Descriptions in Full, the Names of the Purchasers, &c. Vols. I. to XVII. 8vo, London, 1887-1903.

Index to the First Ten Volumes of Book- Prices Current (1887-1896). Constituting a Reference List of Subjects and, incidentally, a Key to Anonymous and Pseudonymous Litera- ture. 8vo, London, 1897.

Bookseller, The, 1858

See throughout for obituary notices, Ac. Mr. Whitaker, the editor of the Bookseller, has an extensive collection of letters, cuttings, extracts from catalogues, Ac., relating to the trade of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth

Brotherhead, W. Forty Years among the Book- sellers of Philadelphia. 8vo, Philadelphia, 1891.

Brown, Horatio R. F., 1854-1903. The Venetian Printing Press : an Historical Study. 4to, London, 1891. Contains several chapters on the book-trade of Venice, the

laws of copyright, &c., during the sixteenth and seventeenth

centuries.

WM. H. PEET. (To be continued.)

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THE TRELAWNY BALLAD, origin of this ballad has recently

centuries.

Booksellers' Association.

1852.

See Publishers' Circular, 15 April and 1 June, 1852 ; also s.7i. J. W. Parker and John Chapman. Bookselling. The Government Bookselling Ques- tion. Memorial to the Chancellor of the

Exchequer on with Correspondence and

Remarks. 8vo, London, 1853.

On the Publication of School - books by Government at the Public Expense : a Corre- spondence with Lord John Russell. 8vo, London, 1851. Bookselling Question, The [i.e., Underselling] :

Additional Letters. 8vo, London, 1852. Book-trade Association (Baltimore, U.S.). Con- stitution and By-Laws. 16mo, Baltimore, U.S. (1874.)

Boston. Early Boston (U.S.) Booksellers, 1642-1711 (Club of Odd Volumes). 8vo, Boston (U.S.), 1900. Boswell, James, 1740-95. The Life of Samuel John- son, LL.D. See throughout.

Bouchot, Henry. The Book: its Printers, Illus- trators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time. With a Treatise on the Art of collecting and describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin-English and English-Latin^ Topo-

resses. Dgraphy, bindings,

numerous Borders, Initials, Head and Tail Pieces, and a Frontispiece. Royal 8vo, London, 1890. Bowes, Robert. Biographical Notes'on the Printers

formed a subject of discussion in the Times, The point at issue was whether the ballad was altogether Hawker's, or whether he worked on some traditional verses. Several years ago I gave a summary in these columns of the question as it stood at the date of writing (7 th S. x. 264), but as the corre- spondents of the Times had evidently not consulted ' N. & Q.,' and some information of considerable value has since been brought to notice, I will, at the risk of repetition, ask the Editor's permission to place on record the indisputable facts of the case, so far as they are known at present.

The poem made its first appearance in the Royal Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth Chronicle for 2 September, 1826, and was headed, " Ballad written at the time one of the Trelawny family was committed to the Tower, in the time of James II. The circum- stances described in it are historically true." Although the ballad was printed anonymously, the name of the writer was ascertained by the distinguished Cornish antiquary Mr. Davies Gilbert, P.R.S., and being greatly struck with the verses, he printed off some fifty copies, in broadside form, at his private press at Eastbourne. Very few of these broadsides seem to have survived, but from one in my possession I transcribe the follow- ing heading, with all its eccentricities of punctuation, <fec. :

"AND SHALL TRELAWNY DIE 4 " The Strong Sensation excited throughout Eng- land, by that decisive act of Bigotry Tyranny and Imprudence on the part of King James the second, by which he committed the Seven Bishops to the Tower was in no district more manifestly displayed

......in Cambridge. A Reprint from the Cam- bridge Antiquarian Society's Communications, Vol. V. No. 4. (Privately printed.) Cambridge, 1886.

Britton, John, 1771-1857. The Rights of Literature ; or, an Enquiry into the Policy and Justice of the Claims of certain Public Libraries on all the Publishers and Authors of the United Kingdom, for Eleven Copies, on the Best Paper, of every New Production. 8yo, London, 1814. This protest largely contributed to the reduction of the

number of copies demanded to six (' D.N.B.').

than in Cornwall; notwithstanding the part taken by that county in the preceding Civil War. This was probably, in a great degree occasioned by sympathy with a most respected Cornish Gentleman, then Bishop of Bristol; as appears from the following Song, restored modernized and improved by Robert Stephens [sic] Hawker Esq. of Whitstone. This Song is said to have resounded in every House, in every High Way, and in every Street."

Mr. Gilbert also communicated the ballad to the Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1827, vol. xcvii. p. 409, where it was published