Until rather near the end of the eighteenth century, those who made their living in England by writing were chiefly publishers' hacks, fellows of the Dunciad sucking their quills in garrets and selling their labor for a crust, for the reading public was too small to support them.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

BY JOHN LORD, LL.D., AUTHOR OF "THE OLD ROMAN WORLD," "MODERN EUROPE," ETC., ETC. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

2. The property of the book to be the publishers', who were to print such editions as they chose.

PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

Most famous of all is the account of a publishers' dinner, with a description of the carving partner sitting gravely at one end, with never a smile on his face, while at the other end of the table sits the laughing partner; and the poor authors are arranged at the table and are treated by the partners according to the number of editions their books have sold.

* PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

The English government, taking advice from a committee of authors and publishers, in which the interest of the publishers was dominant, declined the offer of the American form of treaty, insisting on the protection of publishers' rights, and the negotiations fell through, with great increase of the outcry in the English press.

Digest of the Reports of the Supreme court of the Philippine Islands; Repertorio de la jurisprudencia filipina, by Edmond Block and H. Lawrence Noble, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

1-2. Arranged and annotated by the publishers' staff, with the assistance of Eulogio P. Revilla.

Prepared by Daniel W. Crockett, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Managing editors: Charles Porterfield & Edwin Stacey Oakes, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Edited by Walter F. Dodd & Albert E. Jenner, Jr., assisted by the publishers' editorial staffs.

Assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

By the publishers' editorial staff.

(In Publishers' Weekly, July 29, 1950)

1-6. 2d ed., by James M. Henderson, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Digest of the Reports of the Supreme court of the Philippine Islands; Repertorio de la jurisprudencia filipina, by Edmond Block and H. Lawrence Noble, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Repertorio de la jurisprudencia filipina, by Edmond Block and H. Lawrence Noble, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Prepared by Daniel W. Crockett, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

1-28, R.C.L. Permanent supplement, 8 volumes, and R.C.L. Supplement 1930 and later, by Joseph H. Hill and the publishers' editorial staff.

Prepared by Daniel W. Crockett, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Managing editors: Charles Porterfield & Edwin Stacey Oakes, assisted by the publishers' editorial staff.

Mrs. L. H. Tiffany (W); 17Jan74; R568436. R568437. How to decode expiration dates; a key to publishers' symbols, published for the clients of the Mayfair Agency.

How to decode expiration dates; a key to publishers' symbols, published for the clients of the Franklin Square Agency.