Current:

Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st December 1890, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1554, S our readers are aware, it has been our...

Page 1554
Page 4
4 of 48

On this page

  • Departments (2)
    • OOiTTEJlTTS
    • St. Dunstax's House, December 1, 1890.
  • Text (6)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      T F

      t f

      I 1554 The Publishers' Circular d <* c . i , 1896 If

      Ooittejltts

      OOiTTEJlTTS

      Literacy Intelligence 1554 Index To Book...

      LITERACY INTELLIGENCE 1554 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BOOKS AND RUMOURS OF BOOKS 1554 ! BRITAIN BETWEEN NOVEMBER 17 & 29 1564

      NOTES AND NEWS 1556 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM IffMEMORIAM 1557 NOVEMBER 17 TO 29 .. 1566

      A ROYAL AUTHORESS 1558 ' NEW B 00 KS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED .. 1570 COST OF MANUFACTURING A BOOK IN AMERICA 1558 MISCELLANEOUS 1577

      BUSINESS CARDS .. 1686 ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN 1559 BDSINESSES F 0 R gALE ] 688 SALE JOTTINGS ..,.,,... ^ ................... 1559 SiTUATI 0 N WANTED ... 1589

      TRADE CHANGES .............. " ............... 1560 | ASSISTANT WANTED ... 1589

      REVIEWS , < fec , 1560 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE , 1590

      St. Dunstax's House, December 1, 1890.

      St . Dunstax ' s House , December 1 , 1890 .

      S Our Readers Are Aware, It Has Been Our...

      S our readers are aware , it has been our A custom in previous years to enlarge the

      issue of the Publishers' Circular appearing in the beginning of December , in order to include

      notices , more or less extended , of books specially intended for the Christmas season .

      Our efforts in this direction were , we are glad to think , appreciated , and year by year the

      number dealing with Christmas literature grew bulkier and bulkier until at length it attained

      the dimensions of a considerable volume . Still it was only the ordinary issue enlarged and

      illustrated , and including all the features appearing A A ^ - » in ordinary —issues . It was much to ..

      attempt the most rapid and cursory survey of the vast mass of books that pour from the

      press in the merry and busy Christmas-tide . But the conductors of the PrBLisHfeiis'CiRcuLAR

      were not content . Taking into account the enormous growth of Christmas literature , and

      the fact that it has come to be recognised as practically a department by itself in the

      publishing trade , and further , seeing the desirability of dealing with it as adequately as its

      importance seemed to demand , we have decided to depart from our usual custom , and to devote

      an entire m , number specially to reviews of Christmas books and notices of seasonable

      publications generally . This number , which will contain some three hundred pages and be

      lavishly illustrated , will appear in a day or two . We may say that , inasmuch as it is entirely

      an extra isBue , the reviews of novels and works in general literature , the literary and trade

      intelligence , and the book list , will be omitted . We publish the usual fortnightly number

      to-day , and will publish another number on the 15 th , so that subscribers can suffer no

      inconvenience from such omissions . The Christmas number stands distinct and by itself .

      And being a distinct and special issue it will

      naturally be ' expected that it marks an advance m =

      i on anything hitherto issued from this office .

      We venture to think that that expectation will not be disappointed . While in the past all

      that space would permit wa 3 done , this year the reviews are fuller , more of the books are

      noticed—indeed , all the more important books are noticed—and , of course , the number of

      illustrations has been increased . In fact , both from a literary and pictorial point of view , our

      Christmas number this year will be found to contain an almost complete survey of the

      Christmas publications of all kinds . Book-| sellers will thus find it a full and comprehensive

      guide to what is best and most characteristic in the season ' s literature . The harvest , we may

      say , lias been exceedingly abundant and we are glad to be able to state that on the whole the

      quality of the crop is highly satisfactory . The tendency of the age , it is sometimes said , is to

      produce specialists . In regard to gift-books this is especially true . The growing demand

      for books suitable for young people has created a great army of workers , many of whom have

      developed into specialists whose names are familiar as household words . Most of the

      favourites of other years are again well to the front this season , and there are some promising

      recruits . But we need not proceed further . Our Christmas number will speak for itself ,

      and show that , diverse as are the tastes of readers , there is something to suit each .

      •<>?

      * Boofts -^ V/ V^ ^V-P And U^»\* Rumours...

      Boofts V / and Rumours jLl of

      * - ^ V ^ ^ V-p U ^»\* W ^ hfWWJUJJ \_/ I Booft #

      Transactions Messrs . C of J . the Clay Cambrid & Sons now ge Philolog publish ical the Society .

      4 Forty Years' Reminiscences of Egypt' is

      the title of a a work which Mr . Robert Fleming *^ v JL

      is writing .

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 1, 1890, page 1554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01121890/page/4/