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    Oct. i, 1890 The Publishers' Circular Ii...

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    of the town . For some years I managed his library which I believe was the largest country ¦

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    spend letter some of introduction Sunday afternoons to Mrs , and . O who ie on wrote a pmy

    behalf . ' ' For what term were you apprenticed ]' * 1 was at Lovejoy ' s altogether five years

    and then I went for a twelvemonth to Lake ' s , of Uxbridge . That was an old established ,

    business ; the trade was excellent in those days V— ^ . In 1850 I purchased J . ii this business bb ^ h ^ bm " ^ p ^^ . from _

    Messrs . Bidew ^^^^^ ^^ & Co ^ ., successors to Mr . Benton Seeley ; he was a relative of the City firm of

    Seeleys 4 Was , and this is the living house now that at Richmond Mr . Seeley . ' occupied 1 '

    £ ' Yes , and also another house adjoining , ¦ but r * j ^^ m ^ r as ^» w ¦ both — — - ¦ - the — ~^*— — houses — — — - — — — belonged _—_ _ to me I rebuilt _ _ ^ . — _ — . _ —

    them at a total cost of £ 7 , 000 . ' ' It makes a very fine shop now . Your

    customers include members of the Royal famil 4 Yes y . ' ; Her Majesty V V the Queen v has been a

    customer of mine at Claremont , and I have supplied her at Windsor . From the late Emperor Frederick of Germany , and also from his widow , I have had a standing order to supply ,

    1 and have bound some handsome books for ; | Chart them . res The were Count also customers de Paris and with the Duke other de many

    members of the nobility . I , printed both the Count ' s and the Duke ' s wedding cardsand

    | have done a lot of other high-class printing , . ' ' ! ' As a townsman , you hold many important

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    j | hood is a comp . I lete hav directory e also on of several the whole occasions neighbour acted - ! as as valuer valuer to to the the trade trade , and and . amoni ? othpra others .

    | valued with Mr . Holmes , the , old among -established , and well-known ¦— business of the late ¦ Mr . Smith

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    relinquished that branch of the profession . ' i ' You also touch other branches besides

    bookselling ?' * There is the stamp X and post JL -office , Iand

    we do a large trade in fancy goods . ' ' Do you touch the second-hand book trade ?'

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    experience 4 Not very ?' much . Ladies areperhapsgoing

    j Arnold in for a , stiffer Froude % l class , and of Laing book , , such ' while , as men i . those , are of

    i reading 4 And more what novels of . your ' circulating library ,

    Mr . Phillipson ?' i 1 ' Our library occupies the whole of the

    first floor , and contains V A . some thirteen thousand volumes , augmented by a yearly subscription

    to Mudie approaching £ 150 . We send out the books in vans for ten miles round , and we also

    send we do 4 a our messe best ng to er keep daily pace to the with City the ; times in fact . ' , On the whole your time personally must

    be well occupied 1 ' ' Yes ; I have been a busy man all my life .

    My duties as a justice of the peace also sometimes demand my attention four or five days a ! week 4 . '

    41 Is am your living private at residence * 4 Canbury in the Bank town " ? ' in the Richmond Road . It is the same house

    that my father occupied more than fifty years ago . Mr ' . Phillipson A then showed our repre A .-

    sentative around the shop and library . Both are exceedingly commodious , and fitted in the best possible manner . In the library there ia

    every convenience for ladies and gentlemen V , and it is a very favourite haunt , especially on a Saturday .

    The portrait which accompanies this sketch is one that has been specially taken for

    publication in the Publishers' Circular .

    Oct. I, 1890 The Publishers' Circular Ii...

    Oct . i , 1890 The Publishers' Circular Iiyi

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1890, page 1171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101890/page/13/