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decided that " on the occasion of this great Exhibition at Paris an attempt should be made to show practically and by that strongest of all appeals, an appeal to the senses, what literature has done, and is doing, towards advancing the civilization of the English people." The collection of books was made by the Kev. W. H. Brookfield, while the collection of periodicals was entrusted to Mr. Charles Alston Collins. In order that it should be made as complete as possible Mr. Collins sought the aid of John Francis, to whom he rendered generous tribute in the Official Report.

An Index to Periodical Literature from 1802. By W. F. Poole and W. I. Fletcher. Third edition, brought down to January, 1882. With Supplements to January, 1902. S.r. Bookselling, Book-trade, Booksellers, Publishers, Ac.

Index to Periodicals. (By Miss Hethering- ton.) 'Review of Reviews' office. Vols. I. -XIII. 1890-1902. S.v. Books, Book-trade, Bookselling, Publishers, &c.

Perthes, Friedrich Christoph (of Gotha), 1772-1843. Memoirs of, 1789-1843. 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1856.

The Life of. By his Son, Clemens Theodor. Translated into English. New Edition. Crown 8vo, London, 1878.

Phillips, Sir Richard, 1768-1840. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Sir Richard Phillips. (By himself.) Fcap. 8vo, London, 1808.

An Old Leicestershire Bookseller (Sir Richard Phillips). By F. S. Herne. Journal of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, January, 1893.

A Memoir appeared in the Gentleman's Maga- zine, August, 1844, pp. 212-14.

See Sorrow's 'Lavengro,' chap, xxxiii. (the vegetarian publisher is probably intended for Phillips) ; ' The Ethics of Diet,' by Howard Williams, London, 1883, p. 235; second edition, 1896, p. 438 ; ' Stray Chapters,' by William E. A. Axon, 1888, p. 237 ; ' X. & Q.,' 9th S. xi. 382. Phillips was the author or compiler of many books which several genera- tions of booksellers have sold as l>eing by " the Abbe Bossut," " the Kev. John Goldsmith," " the Rev. David Blair," &c., even as William Godwin published several educational books as by " Edward Baldwin," which had a very fair sale up to a few years ago.

Plantin Family (Antwerp), 1514-1876. Christophe Plantin, Imprimeur Anversois. Par Max Rooses. Illustree de plusieurs centaines gravures, por- traits, vues, lettrines, litres de livres, frontis- pices. Second edition. Royal 8vo, Antwerp, 1897.

Annales de 1'Imprimerie Plantinienne. Par Backer et Ruelens. Brussels, ,1865.

Correspondance de Plantin. Editee par Max Rooses. 2 vojs. Ghent, 1884-6.

La Maison Plantin. Par Degeorge. Third edition. Paris, 1886.

The Plantin Museum. Harper's Magazine, August, 1890.

Catalogue du Musee Piantin-Moretus. Par Max Rooses, Conservateur du Musee. Antwerp, 1893.

And see other works noted in the above catalogue. The supreme interest of the family history and of the famous Museum at Antwerp is my excuse for including the name of Plantin in a list ostensibly devoted only to the English and American branches of the'subject.

Plomer, H. R. New Documents on English Printers and Booksellers in the Sixteenth Century. Bibliographical Society's Transactions, vol. iv. 4to, London, 1898.

Abstracts from the Wills of English Printers and Stationers, 1492-1630. Printed for the Bibliographical Society. 4to, London, 1903.

Ponder, Nathaniel, fl. 1656. Wellingborough News, 2 Oct., 1903. British Weekly, 11 Sept., 1903. (Notes by Mr. W. Perkins.)

Ponder was the first publisher of Bunyan's ' Pilgrim's Progress,' 1678. Dunton calls him " Nathaniel (alias Bunyan)_ Ponder."

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. The Dunciad, 1728 1729.

Mentions Edmund Curll, John Dunton, Bernard Lintot, Thomas Oslx>rne, Jacob Tonson, &c.

Portraits of Public Characters. By the author of ' Random Recollections of the Lords and Com- mons ' (James Grant, 1802-72, the once well- known editor of the Morning Advertiser). 2 vols. cr. 8vo, London, 1841. See vol. ii. for Mr. John Murray and Mr. Thomas Tegg.

Power, John. A Handy Book about Books for Book-Lovers, Book-Buyers, and Book-Sellers. Attempted by John Power. 8vo, London, 1870.

Prang, L., & Company, Boston, U.S. The Prang Souvenir of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the House of L. Prang & Com- pany, held at Turn Hall, Boston, 25 Dec., 1881. With illustrations. 4to, Boston, 1882.

Printers. For information as to the connexion of the early printers

with publishers and booksellers, see Bigmore and Wyman's

' Bibliography of Printing,' 3 vols., 1880-86. For the whole subject of printing sec Catalogue of the

William Blades Library, 1899, and Catalogue of the Passmore

Edwards Library, 1897. These are both compiled by John

Southward. The two collections of books are in the library

of the St. Bride Foundation Institute, Bride Lane, London,

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Publishers' Association (The London), founded 1896. List of Members and Rules, published annually.

Publishers' Board of Trade (New York). Articles of Association and By-Laws, July, 1870. Re- vised January, 1871. 8vo, New York, 1871.

Publishers' Circular (The), 1837. See throughout for obituary notices, &c.

Publishers' Weekly, New York. Sec throughout for obituary notices, &c.

Putnam, George Havep. Authors and Publishers- Containing a Description of Publishing Methods and Arrangements, &c. First edition, post 8vo, New York and London, 1883 ; seventh edition, post 8vo, New York and London, 1900.

Authors and their Public in Ancient Times : a Sketch of Literary Conditions and of the Relations with the Public of Literary Pro- ducers, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Roman Empire. 12mo, first edition. New York and London, 1893 ; 12mo, third edition, revised, New York and London, 1896.

Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages : a Study of the Conditions of the Pro- duction and Distribution of Literature from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. 2 vols. 8vo, New York and London, 1897.

Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-72. A Memorial of George Palmer Putnam, together with a Record of the Publishing House founded by him. (Pri- vately printed.) New York, 1903.

Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-99. U( 1m), A(dolph). Ber- nard Quaritch in London. Separat-Abdruck