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 ii s. i. JAN. 15, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Junk (W.), Internationales Adressbuch der Antiquar-Buchhandler. With Portrait and Memoir of Bernard Quaritch. Berlin, 1906.

King, Philip Stephen, 1819-1908. Reminiscences of an Octogenarian. Privately Printed. 1905. Mr. King was the founder of the well-known firm of Par- liamentary publishers and booksellers. These reminiscences,

however, only relate to Mr. King's life up to the time of his

commencing business for himself in 1853.

Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Charles Knight, Publisher. By Alexander Strahan. Good Words, September, 1867.

London Booksellers' Signs. See Publishers' Cir- cular, 12, 19 March, 2, 16 April, 28 May, and 20 Aug., 1892.

Longman, House of. Notes on Books, Extra

Number, 8 Dec., 1908. This contained the succession of partners and imprints

of the firm from 1724, and was reprinted at 10 S. xi. 2.

Miller, George, bookseller of Dunbar, 1770-1835, and John Miller, printer and publisher, 1778-1852, Bibliography of. See articles by T. F. TJ(nwin) at 10 S. xii. 1, 42, 374.

Morgan, R. C., his Life and Times. By his son

George E. Morgan. 8vo, London, 1909. Founder of the firm of Morgan & Chase, afterwards Mor- gan & Scott.

Munsey, Frank A. The Founding of the Munsey Publishing House. A Quarter of a Century Old. New York, 1907.

Murray, House of. Murray v. The Times. See The Times Book Club.

Ni-wbery, John, 1713-67. See Austin Dobson's

' Eighteenth Century Vignettes,' First Series

(art. 'An Old London Bookseller ' ). London,

1906.

Newbery was said to be the original of Johnson's "Jack

Whirler " in The Idler, No. 19.

(?)Page, Walter H. A Publisher's Confessions.

Crown 8vo, New York, 1905.

Ten chapters on 'The Ruinous Policy of Large Royalties, ' Has Publishing become Commercialized ? ' The Adver- tising of Books,' &c.

Payne, Thomas, " At the Mews-Gate." See 10 S. vii. 409, 492 ; Mathias's ' Pursuits of Literature ' ; Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixix. pp. 171-2 ; ' D.N.B.,' art. by W. P. Courtney ; and Austin Dobson's ' Eigh- teenth Century Vignettes,' Second Series, art. ' The Two Paynes.'

I 'it man. Sir Isaac, The Life of. By Alfred Baker. With 50 Illustrations. 8vo, Lon- don, 1908. Sir Isaac Pitman was famous for his system of shorthand,

and also founded the publishing firm bearing his name.

I'loiner, H. R. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England from 1641 to 1667. Printed for the Biblio- graphical Society. See art. on ' British Provincial Book-Trade, 1641-67,' 10 S. x.

Pollard, A. W. Last Words on the Title-Page. London, 1891.

\\ ostminster Hall and its Booksellers. Art. in The Library, October, 1905.

Printers' and Booksellers' "Privileges" and Licences of the Olden Times : I. General ; II. England ; III.-IV. Scotland. British and Colonial Printer and Stationer, 17 Jan., 7 March, 23 May, 25 July, 1907.

Provincial Booksellers. See Booksellers, Pro- vincial, ante, p. 5.

Public Opinion. Fifteen Articles on ' The Lead- ing Publishers,' 5 Feb.-13 May, 1904. Publishers and Publishing a Hundred Years Ago.. From Materials collected by Aleck Abrahams, With some Notes by E. Marston. Publishers'? Circular, 6, 13 Jan., 1906.

[Petheram, John.] Reasons for Establishing an 1 ^ Authors' Publication Society, by which Literary Labour would receive a more adequate Reward, and the Price of all New Books be much Reduced. 8vo, London. 1843.

Shaylor, Joseph. Two articles on ' Bookselling r and ' Publishing,' with notices of British and American publishing houses. ' En- cyclopedia Britannica,' ninth ed., Supple- mentary Volumes, vols. iv. and viii. Spedding, James, 1810-1881.' Publishers and Authors.' Printed for the author. Crowix 8vo, London. 1867.

Two papers which were intended to appear in a magazine- or review, but which, from the nature of the assertions- made as to certain publishing methods, were refused inser- tion. It is interesting to note that Mr. Spedding suggests that the system of paying authors by means of a "percent- age npon the retail price of the volume sold" should be more generally adopted. This system of " royalties " was a- novelty in England when Mr. Spedding wrote. He says- that it was introduced to his notice by Mr. H. O. Houghton r of Messrs. Hurd & Hough ton, of New York. Stationers' Company, The. A Paper read at Stationers' Hall, 27th March, 1906. By Charles Robert Rivington. 8vo, London, 1906.

Suttaby, The Firm of, 1801-90. See The Book- seller, 5 July, 1890.

Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846. Memoir of the later Thomas Tegg. Abridged from his Auto- biography by permission of his son, William Tegg. By Aleph (i.e., Dr. Harvey of Lons- dale Square). From The City Press of August 6, 1870. Printed for Private Circu- lation.

Thin, James. Reminiscences of Booksellers and! Bookselling in Edinburgh in the Time of William IV. An Address delivered to a Meeting of Booksellers' Assistants .... Edin- burgh, October, 1904. W T ith a Portrait of James Thin. Privately Printed. Post 4to, Edinburgh, 1905.

Thomason, George, Bookseller, The Rose and Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, c. 1602-66. Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, News- papers, and MSS. relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, 1640- 1661, now in the British Museum, and known as the ' Thomason Tracts.' 2 vols,. Royal 8vo, London. 1908.

A life of George Thomason, by G. K. Fortescue, is prefixed to the Catalogue.

Times, The, and the Publishers. Privately Printed for the Publishers' Association.. London, 1906.

Times, The, Book Club. See ' The Trust Move- ment in British Industry,' by H. W. Mac- rosty, pp. 276-83. London, 1907. Times, The, Book Club, and Publishers' Associa- tion and the Associated Booksellers. See The Times, and other daily and weekly papers, 1906-8 ; Publisher and Bookseller, 1906-8 ; Bookseller, 1906-8; Publishers' Cir- cular, 1906-8 ; and ' xVlurray, John and A. H_