He sought the society of the philosopher Godwin, then settled as a bookseller in Skinner Street, Holborn.

It is like a bookseller of the present day vaunting his new editions to a collector in search of the earliest known.

The book contains 285 pages, is printed on a fine quality of | | tinted paper, is handsomely bound, and is sold by all | | booksellers for $1.50, and sent for the same (postage paid)

The former edition was published by Bernard Lintott at the Cross Keys, Fleet-street, and the latter by the same bookseller at the Middle Temple Gate.

William Blackwood of Edinburgh had grown like Murray from a bookseller to a publisher, and he, too, looked for a means of increasing his prestige.

For the Booksellers of London and Westminster.

'SIR, 'There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge[802], and which I must entreat you to procure me.

Why are they subjected to a censorship of the press, which dictates to them what they may or may not read, and which punishes booksellers with exile and ruin for keeping for sale what they want to buy?

The cause of his first visit is related by Mrs. Piozzi, nearly in the following manner:Mr. Murphy being engaged in a periodical paper, the Gray's inn Journal, was at a friend's house in the country, and, not being disposed to lose pleasure for business, wished to content his bookseller by some unstudied essay.

Mr. Murray did not publish the poems, but after their appearance in the newspapers, they were announced by many booksellers as "Poems by Lord Byron on his Domestic Circumstances."

Taken all in all, the chief virulence of the abuse was directed more against the booksellers than against Mrs. Haywood.

He had the mortification of offering it to several Booksellers without success, who, perhaps, not being qualified themselves to judge of the merit of the performance, refused to risque the necessary expences, on the work of an obscure stranger, whose name could be no recommendation to it.

I will not wish, even in confidence, to say anything ill of the London booksellers beyond their deserts; but I assure you that, to compare this offer of Murray's with their usual offers, it is magnanimous indeed....

"Have you a copy of the French Constitution?" was asked of a bookseller during the second French Empire, and the characteristically witty Gallic reply was: "We do not deal in periodical literature.

The great London publisher, Dodslecy, to whom the book had been offered, and who had declined the venture, figures in the advertisement as the principal London bookseller from whom it was to be obtained.

[Footnote 1: Erratum, for M. & K. read K. & M. Booksellers after Authors.]

In common with all the Quartos and the First Folio the Second Folio has failings, which will be noted in due course, but these have been exaggerated, and against them may be set the advantages detailed in the address of 'The Booksellers to the Reader,' reprinted on p. lx.

Narrow and exclusive as they may have been in their relation to the public interest, there can be no doubt that these traditions helped to constitute, in the dealings of the booksellers among themselves, a standard of honour which put a certain curb on the pursuit of private gain.