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James, G. P. R., 1801-60. Some Observations on the Book-trade, as connected with Literature in England. Journal of the Statistical Society of London. Vol. VI., Part I. London, Feb- ruary, 1843.

Jessqpp, Augustus, 1824 A Plea for the Pub- lisher. Contemporary Review, March, 1890.

Johnson, Joseph, 1821 By - gone Manchester Booksellers. I. William Willis, 1807-61, and others. II. Saniuel Johnson, 1783-1868, and other members of his family.

These notices appeared in W. T. Johnson's Manchester Catalogue (28, Corporation Street), December, 1883, and February, 1884, and were all that were published.

Liverpool Booksellers.' See Bookseller, Sep- tember, 1861 ; January, 1862.

Manchester Booksellers. See Bookseller, February, 1861.

Katalog der Bibliothek des Borsenvereins der Deutschen Buchhandler. Leipzig, 1885. Supplement, 1885-1901. Leipzig, 1902. Further Supplements are issued periodically, Nos. 1-4, December, 1902, to December, 1903.

This library contains the most complete collection in the world of books in all languages dealing with the production and sale of books and cognate subjects.

Kelly, Thomas, 1772-1855. Passages from the

Private and Official Life of the late Alderman

Kelly (Lord Mayor 1836-7). By the Rev. R. C.

Fell. With Portrait. Fcap. 8vo, London, 1856.

Kelly was an enterprising bookseller and a notable man,

but is omitted from the ' D.N.B.'

Kelly's Directory of Stationers, Printers, Book- sellers, Publishers, and Paper Makers in Great Britain. Royal 8vo, London, 1900, and period- ically.

Kirkman, Francis, publisher and dramatic writer,

1632 (?). Memoirs of his own Life. This is mentioned by Dunton, but I cannot find any other

reference to it or proof of its publication. The ' D.N.B.'

does not mention it.

Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. The Pursuit of Know- ledge under Difficulties (see chaps, x.-xi. ' Lite- rary Pursuits of Booksellers and Printers '). 12mo, London, 1830.

The Struggle of a Book against Excessive Taxation. Svo, London, 1850.

The Old Printer and the Modern Press. Crown 8vo, London, 1854.

Part II. deals with eighteenth and nineteenth century methods of publishing and bookselling.

Two articles by F. Espinasse appeared in the Critic during May, 1860.

Passages of a Working Life. 3 vols. crown 8vo, London, 1864.

Shadows of the Old Booksellers. Crown 8vo, London, 1865.

A Sketch. By his Granddaughter Alice A. Clowes. With a Portrait. 8vo, London, 1892. Contains a list of works written, edited, or conducted by Charles Knight.

Lackington, James, 1746-1815.

Memoirs of the First Forty-five Years of James Lackington, the present Bookseller in Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, London. Written by Himself in Forty-six Letters to a Friend. With portrait. 8vo, London, 1791. For other editions see Lowndes.

The Confessions of J. Lackington, late Book- seller at the Temple of the Muses, in a Series of Letters to a Friend. Second edition. Crown 8vo, London, 1804.

Lawler, John. Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth Century (1676-1700). With a Chro- nological List of the Book Auctions of the Period. Crown 8vo, London, 1898. Mr. Lawler is the principal book-cataloguer at Messrs.

Sotheby's. His book contains some details of the earliest

known "trade sales " as well as of sales of private collections

of books.

Lea Brothers & Co. One Hundred Years of Pub- lishing, 1785-1885. 8vo, Philadelphia, 1885.

Leisure Hour Jubilee. By John C. Francis. 9 th S. viii. 518 ; ix. 3, 24.

Letter (A) to the Society of Booksellers, on the Method of forming a True Judgment of the Manuscripts of Authors : and on the leaving them in their hands, or those of others, for the determination of their merit : also, of the know- ledge of new books, and of the method of dis- tributing them for sale 8vo, London, 1738.

Library, The, New Series. Vol. i., 1900, and in progress. See Indexes throughout.

Literature of the People. By John Francis. Athe- naeum, 1 January, 1870.

Little, Brown & Co., Boston. An article reprinted from the Publishers' Weekly. 8vo, New York, 1898.

Liverpool Booksellers. Articles by Joseph Johnson in the Bookseller, 26 September, 1861 ; January, 1862.

Lockhart, John Gibson, 1794-1854. The Life of Sir

Walter Scott, 1837-8. See throughout ; also Scott's ' Journal,' 1890 ; and see*

Ballantyne, House of, supra.

London Booksellers' Signs.

See the Bibliographer, vol. ii. 112, 143, 174 ; iii. 45, 67, 94 j: iv. 76 ; vi. 22 (London, 1882-4). London Bridge Booksellers. See s.n. Thomson, R.

See also the articles at 6th S. v. 221 ; vi. 444, 465, 531 ; vii- 103, 461 ; x. 163, 237, 317 ; xi. 293 ; 7th S. iv. 164.

Longman, House of.

A series of articles appeared in the Critic,. 24 March, 7, 21 April, 1860, by F. Espinasse. This is the most authoritative and minute account which has yet appeared.

Bookseller, August, 1859, and 30 June, 1865. British and Colonial Printer and Stationer* 24 December, 1884.

Publishers' Circular, 13 August, 1892. Sketch, 30 May, 1894.

Bookman, special article, with portraits, &c.> March, 1901.

Public Opinion, 26 February, 1904. Mr. John C. Francis informs me that Sir Charles W. Dilke possesses a pocket-book of his great-grandfather, Charles Wentworth Dilke, the father of Charles Weutworth Dilke of the Atfientfum, containing the following entry under date Friday, 4 January, 1788 : " Mr. Longman wrote to me desiring my support to a periodical paper called the Times."

Longman, Thomas, 1804-79. Athenaeum, 6 Sept., 1879; Standard, 2 Sept., 1879; Daily Telegraph, 1 Sept., 1879; Publishers' Circular, 16 Sept., 1879.

Longman, William, 1813-77. An article by Henry Reeve in Fraser's Magazine, October, 1877 ; AthenEeum, 18 August, 1877 ; Publishers' Cir- cular, 1 Sept., 1877; Bookseller, 4 Sept., 1877.

Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-84. A bookseller in Fleet Street. " He is supposed to have been delineated by Miss Burney, in her celebrated novel 'Cecilia,' under the name of 'Briggs.'" (Tim- perley's ' Dictionary of Printers ').