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C. Those in which the internal evidence, while pointing to Southey, is not sufficiently strong to icarrant a conclusion.

17. ' Odes and Miscellanies,' by R. F. Gheetham. January, 1798.

18. ' The Columbiad,' by James Moore. May, 1798.

19. 'Poems, Sacred and Moral,' by Thoncis Gisborne. April, 1799.

20. Drake's ' Literary Hours.' May, 1799.

21. D'Israeli's ' Romances.' May, 1799.

22. Link's ' Travels in Portugal,' &c. June, 1803.

23. ' Claims of Literature,' &c. June, 1803.

24. ' Poems, Lyrical and Miscellaneous,' by the Rev. Henry Moore. June, 1803.

JACOB ZEITLIN. University of Illinois.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE

BOOKSELLERS AND PRINTERS:

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE.

(See 10 S. viii. 201 ; xii. 164 ; 11 S. vi. 207 ; viii. 44.)

I HAVE pleasure in sending a further con- tribution to the above subject. When the notes were published which had taken me more than twenty years to collect, I little thought I should be able so soon to add to them. It is surprising how much informa- tion may be gathered from sources outside the county. By jotting down notes on a subject when one is reading or searching authorities much material may be garnered. I have been thus able to antedate the first local bookseller by at least fifty years (1660-61). I am also inclined to mention two or three stationers' apprentices a hundred years or so earlier. As is well known, booksellers were called stationers because formerly they kept their shops together in one station or street.

My former lists were composed only of past booksellers and printers, and I am sorry to say that since they appeared in ' N. & Q.' several well-known Huntingdonshire printers have passed away. It grieves me to include them in this note. I should like specially to allude to my long friendship with two of them : William Goggs, who died last year, the oldest tradesman in Huntingdon, and my valued friend David Richard Tomson, who died in 1910, aged 83. He was a keen lover of books, and a grand old man of the printing trade. Mr. Geo. C. Caster, the well-known Peterborough printer and anti- quary, died in 1914, and was buried in Huntingdonshire.

ST. IVES (10 S. viii. 201).

Dicey (Cluer), printer, 1720-32. Managed the St. Ives business after his brother William left St. Ives for Northampton, where he and Robert Raikes founded The Northampton Mercury on the patternof The St. Ives Mercury. Cluer Dicey nearly completed the purchase of The Stamford Mercury, but the transaction fell through at the last moment. Dicey then left for London, and his celebrated chapbooks were printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane. Bloom (T.), printer, 1787-90 : " On Sunday died in his 23rd year Mr. Thomas Bloom, son of the late Mr. T. Bloom, printer of St. Ives " (Cam- bridge Chronicle, Mar. 27, 1812). This shows that T. Bloom the printer had deceased before 1812. I have found several gravestones of the Bloom family in St. Ives Churchyard. I transcribe two bearing the names of Thomas, but .the inscriptions do not agree with the above date :

" In | memory of | Thomas Bloom | son of Will and Jane Bloom | who died Jany. 21,1790 | aged 29 years."

" Sacred | to the memory of | Thomas Bloom | who departed this life | May 15, 1825, | aged 26 years . . . . "

Davis (W.), printer, 1789-92. Davis was a printer at Ely about 1788, and soon after settled at St. Ives. Paul (W. F.), printer, 1801. I have a copy of a sermon, the only specimen of his printing known to me. The title is :

" An | Introductory discourse, | charge, and | sermon, | with | a Confession of Faith, Delivered at the Ordination | of the Rev. Charles Dewhirst, on May 28, 1801, | over the Church of Christ, assembling in Whiting | Street, Bury, Suffolk. I Published by Request of the Congregation. | St. Ives : Printed by W. F. Paul. | Sold by T. Conder, Bucklersbury, London ; | M. and F. Paul, St. Ives ; Flower, | Cambridge ; Raw, Ipswich ; | Dingle, Bury ; Burkitt, Sudbury ; and I Brightly, Bungav. I 1801." Paul (M. and F.), booksellers, 1801.

The above imprint introduces us to two fresh booksellers. I have an imprint dated " Paul," 1803, and another with the date 1837, but know nothing further about the family.

Underwood (J.), printer, 1834-9. James Under- wood is mentioned in Robson's ' Commercial Directory,' c. 1839, as a printer at St. Ives. Skeeles (George), printer, 1846-56. Skeeles printed in 1846 ' Hymns and Poems,' by Thomas Brown of Cambridge, and ' Ninety- Eight Hymns and Poems,' by Thomas Brown of Fenstanton, Cambridge, 1833 also printed in 1846. His premises and others were taken down for the site of the new Free Church, which was opened 1863. Skeeles left for Watford, where he published' a book with the title-page : " Communion of the True Fellow- ship of the Saints explained. By George Skeeles, minister of the Gospel, Watford." Preface dated Dec. 5, 1865. ! ox (John), bookseller, 1854-8. Law stationer

and accountant.

Parry (Frederick), printer, 1853-5. Parry ad- vertised in Hatfield'.s ' Gazetteer,' 1854 : "The above is the oldest established Printing