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can realize its importance and the growth of this comparatively new hobby.

Of these purchasers there is something to say. Sutherland's marvellous extra-illus- trated volumes, constantly added to by his widow, are housed next to the Bodleian, a thing apart, only to be seen twice a week. But Crowle's Pennant at the British Museum is more accessible, and therefore better known. Now the examination of its pages leaves one well-defined impression, and that is that when its creator found the variety of engraved views was insufficient for his ambition, or their cost was prohibitive, he engaged illustrators, topographical artists, to make drawings of buildings or copies of prints. So, granted a continuance of his zeal and means, he could become possessed of a Pennant or a Lysons extended to a greater number of volumes than that of his rivals. Clearly, therefore* when this vogue for London illustrations had advanced, it became with many a mere competition of numbers, not of interest or historic merit. I am not contending that this passion was entirely without merit, or that it has not been of great benefit to succeeding ages. It undoubtedly led to the preservation of many scraps, of interest now, but then considered of little worth. But when Crowle, for example, identifies Hogarth's employs an artist to copy Swertner's not rare ' View of London from Islington Church,* we see the disadvantage of such a collector not being a topographer.
 * South wark Fair ? as Bartholomew Fair, and

There are similar blemishes in the Grace Collection, and I anticipate that when the opportunity occurs of examining the Gardner Collection in its entirety, instances of a desire for mere numbers will be notice- able. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

(To be concluded.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND

BOOKSELLING. (See 10 S. i. 81, 142, 184, 242, 304, 342;

ii. 11 ; v. 361.)

A Ballade of Bygone Bookshops. CURLL, by the Fleet-Ditch nymphs caress'd ;

TOXSON the Great, the Slow-to-pay ; LINTOT, of Folios rubric -press'd ;

OSBORNE, that stood in JOHNSON'S way ; DODSLEY, who sold the Odes ' of Gray ; DAVIES, that lives in CHURCHILL'S rhyme ; MILLAR and KNAPTON, where are they ? Whore are the bookshops of old time ?

Austin Dobson, art. ' The Two Paynes,' i Second Series. ^^ J _ l- j
 * j in Eighteenth Century Vignettes/

" I once said to him, ' I am sorry, Sir, that you did not get more for your Dictionary.' His answer was, ' I am sorry, too. But it was very

well. The booksellers are generous, liberal- minded men.' He, upon all occasions, did ample

justice to their character in this respect. He

considered them the patrons of literature."

Boswell's ' Johnson ' (Napier's edition), vol. i,

pp. 238-9.

Author's, The, Hand-Book : a Guide to the Art and System of Publishing on Com- mission. 8vo, London, 1844.

Author's, The, Printing and Publishing Assistant. A Guide to the Printing, Correcting, and Publishing New Works. Crown 8vo, London, 1845.

Authors' and Booksellers' Co-operative Publishing Alliance. A New Departure in Publishing.. 8vo, London, 1901.

Ballantyne Press, The, and its Pounders, 1796- 1908. By W. T. Dobson and W. L. Carrie, Post 4to, Edinburgh, 1909.

Black wood, The House of. The Early House of

Blackwood. By I. C. B. Printed for

private circulation. Post 4to, Edinburgh,.

1900.

This was intended to supply a deficiency in Mrs. Oliphant'a-

history of the firm.

Book-Auctions in England. See 2 S. xi. 463 ; 5 S. xii. 95, 211, 411 ; 6 S. ii. 297, 417; 9 S. vi. 86, 156 ; 10 S. viii. 246, 266.

Longman's Magazine, April, 1893. Art. by A. W. Pollard, ' The First English Book- Sale.'

Bookseller, The, Jubilee Number, Jan. 24, 1908. ' Fifty Years of " The Bookseller " and Bookselling.' London, 1908.

Bookseller, The Successful : a Complete Guide to Success to all engaged in a Retail Book- selling. . . .Business. 4to, London, 1905.

Booksellers, Provincial. See 10 S. v. 141, 183, 242, 297, 351, 415, 492 ; vii. 26, 75 ; viii. 201 ; x. 141.

Durham and Northumberland, 10 S. vi. 443.

Hampshire. See 10 S. v. 481 ; vi. 31. St. Neots. See 10 S. xii. 164.

Booksellers' Associations. See Bowes.

Booksellers East of St. Paul's. Bookseller, 2 Sept., 1873.

Book-Trade Bibliography in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. 8vo, New York, 1898.

Bowes (Robert). Booksellers' Associations, Past and Present. Printed for Private Circulation for the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland. 4to, Taunton, 1905.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 1762-1837. A Sum- mary Statement of the great Grievances imposed on Authors and Publishers, and the injury done to Literature, by the late Copy- right Act (and other pamphlets by the same author), 1817-18.

Burns & Gates, The House of .By Wilfrid Wilber- force. 16mo, London, 1908.

Catalogues. Catalogus Librorum ex variis

Europao partibus advectorum, apud Rober-

turn Scott, Bibliopolam Regium. 4to, Lon-

dini, 1687.

The first London booksellers' catalogue. Quoted from the

catalogue of Mr. B. Dobell, 77, Charing Cross Road, W.