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    Metropolitan Bookselling. Ii. Of The Law...

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    ) ! ! fined very verv special special to a few knowledge Knowieuge . firms nev iias er exceeding uaiwap always half con uuxx a --i dozen dozen , with witn one one or or two two outsiders outsiders as as second

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    1 especiall , y to the cost of the editorial portion and the b precarious ¦ bf bb ¦ bbb existence bbbbbbbbb which the

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    ¦ J ^^ m .. j ^ ^^^^ H > y V ™* bbjbbbibbbb ^^ . ^ ^^^» - ^"' » " > ™ ^^^ ^^^ ^» ™ — — — — I i I ( editions orlifi almost ona dangerous b > of of successtul successful - ) if out .. work work of date ^ s s iollow follow ; consequentl rapidly raDidTv m ^ y .

    ¦ and this system has culminated in an "Annual , ! Practice of the Courts " containing over 1200

    I pages ^^^ ^^^ V ^^ F ^^^ ^^ ^ , " ^ ^^^^ and ^^^^ ^^^ publish ^^ ^—^ ^^ — — ed at the beg — inning ^^^^ B — of term , — : after the long vacation . The three principal

    ! firms of Sweet , Stevens & Son , and Maxwell I publish several of the larger works jointly , and as the cost of some of thesesuch as "Chitt ' s

    Statutes or " Fisher ' s Digest , , * ' & c , must run y to several thousand poundsit is a prudent if

    1 H K , « I not necessary course . Many ^^ years ago such | works ^ — ^ ^^ B r ^^ b ^^ b ^^^ as - ^^ p ^^ r ^^ Viner » ^^~^^ ¦ ' ¦ ' ^^ — ' s — "Abrid " - - " — — gment M ^^ W — — , ^ f " 30 vols ., or

    ! Burn ' s " Justice " were published by several j ! ^ houses ^^» ^ h ^ 1 ^^^ ^^^ - ^^^ ^^^ , ^ p including ^^^^««« ^^ r ^^ ^ " ^^^ ~~^ ^ — ™ ¦ " ¦—^^^ V ¦ those ^ — — in the — ¦ ~ ™ ' Row ^ - — - t ; ^ m but —¦ " ^^ — ^ latterl — " ^ — — ~ " ~ ^^^ ^^^ —¦¦ y m

    \ the law trade has got more and more into the exclusive hands of the law booksellers .

    j i by C c The . F . law Maxwell trade in at the Melbourne colonies is and represented Sydney

    ; and Carswell & Co ., Toronto , both of whom j have the exclusive markets of their respective

    i colonies . Mr . Juta at Cape Town publishes and \ deals largely in law books , Scotland has its own laws and booksellersand Ireland ' s

    dej mand for law books decreases , yearly . The law 1 publishers have suffered largelyjFrom American

    ; piracies , nearly every work ofimportance being reprinted at onceeven such large works as

    , Fisher ' s " Digest , " 7 vols . Home publishers however r ¦ have adopted recentl ¦ y ¦¦¦ a spirited

    policy ~^ v ^ v ^^^ v ^^^ which ^^* , ^ B ™ ^^ — ^^ — — mig ht be — — —* imitate ~^ — ¦ — d b ^^ " ^ y others ¦ ~ ¦ - ¦— " ^ * r ^^^ . ^^^^ Some of the most important works have been

    published by them in conjunction with a Boston firm , and edited by American lawyers .

    These authorised editions ( as it were ) are j likely to be appreciated by the American ' lawyerswhoafter alllike to do justice if it

    does not , interfere , with , their pockets . Copyrights in law books have . not the short existence of the ordinary work ; each edition having

    important alterations and additions revives the original term , so that the twentieth edition of Archbold Bl ¦¦¦* ¦ ^ ¦¦^ tV 's "Criminal 4 i i Pleading Bi " published

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    Jabez Sandifer . —Our last number contained a brief announcement of the lamented death of thia BV W ¦ ¦ ¦ well B i -known ¦ B »——¦ ¦ B ¦ V ¦ ¦¦ ¦ I ¦ ¦ manager ¦ ¦ HBJB in Bf V the f

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    sixty-four years of age . We have remarked tHat Mr . Sandifer was the first chief of the book department at Messrs . W . H . Smith

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    to improve . Previously they were under the control of railway porters of rather low ino tellect 5 wn appetite , who s pandere inclined d to to . such Matters tastes as had their

    indeed assumed a serious aspect when Mr . W . H . public Smith . advanced ~ : Nia £ ~ onl to y we the re i relief the public of the benefited travelling bbbbh ¦

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    it did not create a new branch of publishing . * Railway Libraries' and other books , with hicrhlv highly em embellished bellished covers nnvfira . were wfirft soon soon under imdfir

    the eye of the public , and , at the outset care was taken that they should be of a

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    say that this care has continued in exercise to the present day . But whatever may have been accomplished by the sale of books , we cannot

    help thinking that this good work has been equalled if not surpassed by the Library Department of Messrs . Smith & Sonswhich "

    VI X B Ifl ¦ h bI afe ¦ , J keeps the _ ^ most remote localities ^_ in constant . contact with tjhe headquarters of literary production . The machinery of this difficult

    service works with admirable smoothness . The late Mr . Sandifer , however , was not

    connected with this department , his occupation being confined solely * " to the books for sale at the stalls . His position brought him

    into contact with all the leading members of the trade , by whom he will _ long _ _ _ o be . _ ^ — held ___ in

    memory . P . B . Marston . —A poet and accomplished

    contributor to the literature of refined sentiment and imagination , whose writings have gained BT —• ¦ acceptance B" — —^ - Bi Bi both ¦ II ¦ in B ¦¦ [ Eng V land BiBP and BBJf in BBB |

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    derod which interesting befel him in by earl the y affliction infancy , of and blindness in spite , of t > f which whirth . bv by the thft aid aid of of others othftra . h he e attained rtkhsiiTtafl a

    fair degre , e of scholarship and , acquaintance with books . He was son of Dr . Westlajxd |

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1887, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031887/page/11/