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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* B. i. MAKCH 5,

Gerring, C. Notes on Printers and Booksellers.

8vo, London, 1900. Geyer, A. Reference Directory of Booksellers and

Stationers in the United States and Canada.

8vo, New York, 1894.

Godwin, William, 1756 - 1836. William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries. By C. Kegan Paul. 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1876.

'Goschen, Georg Joachim, 1752-1829. The Life and Times of, Publisher and Printer of Leipzig. By his Grandson, Viscount Goschen. 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1902.

Grievances between Authors and Publishers. (Society of Authors.) Crown 8vo, London,

1887.

Griffiths, Ralph, 1720-1803. The European Maga- zine, January, 1804.

The "memoir" by Dr. Griffiths'* son, mentioned in the article as being in preparation, I cannot trace, and it was probably never published.

'Growoll, A.

The Profession of Bookselling: a Handbook of Practical Hints. 2 Parts. Royal 8vo, New York, 1893-5.

A Bookseller's Library. 12mo, New York, 1891.

Book-trade Bibliography in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. 12mo, New York, 1893.

Growoll, A., and Eames, Wilberforce. Three Cen- turies of English Book-trade Bibliography : an Essay on the Beginnings of Book-trade Biblio- graphy since the introduction of Printing, and in England since 1595. By A. Growoll. Also a List of the Catalogues, &., published for the English Book-trade from 1595-1902, by Wilber- force Eames, of the Lenox Library, New York. New York, published for the Dibdin Club by M. L. Greenhalgh, and London, 1903. This book treats of the bibliography of catalogues, and only very incidentally gives a few biographical details.

Guy, Thomas, 1644-1724.

A True Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Guy, Esq., late of Lombard Street, Bookseller. 3rd Edition. London, 1725.

An Essay on Death-Bed Charity, exemplified in Mr. Thomas Guy, Bookseller. By John Dtinton, 1728.

A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital &-,? of T hon 'as Guy, pp. 1-73). By Samuel Wilks, M.D., and G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. With Portrait of Thomas Guy. 8vo, London,

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^ This is probably the fullest account of Thomas Guv that is possible.

Hamilton, Gavin. Short Memoir of Gavin Hamil- ton, Bookseller in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century. (Privately printed.) 1840.

Harper, House of. Harper's Story Books. The Harper Establishment; or, how the Story Books are Made. By Jacob Abbott. Illus- trated. New York, 1855.

James Harper. With Portrait. (Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 1376.) Folio, Leipzig, 1869. /. SuS ^ n, d Portra its of the Harper Brothers. i ^ he P ub, llsh er8' Trade- List Annual,' 1877.) .' New York.

Fletcher Harper. (Publishers' Weekly, No. &>/.) ^ew York, 1890.

Philip J. A. Harper. With Portrait. (Piib- lixherti' Weekly, vol. xlix. No. 11.) New York, 1896.

Joseph Wesley Harper. With Portrait. (Pub- lishers' Weekly, vol. 1. No. 4.) New York, 1896. Hatchards. The Hatchard Bookselling Business. (Piccadilly Bookmen.) London, 1893.

Publishers' Circular, 21 Nov., 1903, Mr. Edwin Shepherd, with portrait. Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834

Collections and Notes (towards English Bibliography). With Index. 6 vols. 8vo, London, 1876-92.

The Confessions of a Collector. Crown 8vo, London, 1897-

This has notes and reminiscences of II. G. Holm, B. Quaritch, P. S. Ellis, Joseph Lilly, &c.

Heinemann, W.

Bookselling: the System adopted in Ger- many for the Prevention of Underselling and for Promoting the Sale of Books. (A Paper read before a meeting of the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland, April, 1895.) 8vo, Taunton, 1895.

The Hardships of Publishing. (Privately printed.) London, 1893.

Hone, William, 1780-1842. Early Life and Con- version. Written by Himself. London, 1841.

Some Account of the Conversion of the late W. Hone, with further Particulars of his Life and Extracts from his Correspondence. 8vo, London, 1853.

Horse Beatse Marias Virginis ; or, Primers of Sarum and York Use. With an Introduction by Edgar Hoskins, M.A. 8vo, London, 1901. This contains ' A List of Printers and Booksellers, with a

List of Places,' from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.

Houghton. Henry Oscar.

See Publishers' Weekly, with portrait, vol. xlviii. No. 10 (New York, 1895) ; vol. li. No. 21 (New York, 1897).

How to Print and Publish a Book. 8vo, Win- chester, 1890.

Hutton, William, 1723-1815.-The Life of William Hutton, F.A.S.S., including a Particular Account of the Riots at Birmingham in 1791. To which is subjoined the History of his Family, written by himself, and published by his Daughter Catherine Hutton. With Portrait. 8vo, London and Birmingham, 1816.

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

ROBERT BOYLE ON THE BIBLE. The curious fact alluded to in Keble's 'Christian Year,' under St. Bartholomew's Day, with regard to the eye of a portrait following a spectator (see 8 th S. ix. 468 ; x. 35), is noticed by the eminent natural philosopher Robert Boyle, who by his efforts to circulate the Scriptures anticipated the work of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The following passage occurs in a discourse printed in 1661, and written, as he reminds his brother the Earl of Orrery, " seven or eight years " before :

"The several Books of the Bible were written chiefly and primarily to those to whom they were first addressed, and to their contemporaries, and