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How Not to Catalogue Books.—The whole wo...
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' The A Uthor. > # We Have To Give A Cor...
' that the uarrel Societ with y honourable has not , and never blishers has . ' had It any q pu
has always asked for one thing only—* just and honest treatment , fair and open agree mentsand honourable observance of those
, agreements . ' In demanding these they have our most hearty sympathy and hopes that they
of 4 / x w > L may be successful at an early date , in unmasking and getting rid of those black sheep
who disgrace our trade during their short existence as publishers ; a moat interesting specimen of one of the genus is described in
J . O the next article , * Something like a publisher . ' ' Questions and answers ? will be very interest-M _ BB * Bfc ^ B »» — . aft ' ¦ am Bftj BB — * m ^ r
ing to authors—No . 1 also to publishers : * Is it right for an editor who receives a book for review to retain itthough giving no notice of
it V is answered in the affirmativeas it is impossible for an editor to notice all , the books
that are published ; but what would be still more interesting to know would be the Society ' s answer to a question as to whether
an editor has the right to sell a book sent him for review , either before or after inserting a
notice of it . We know of a case where the clerk of the publisher , offering a new 6 s . book for subscription to the trade on the day of
J . 1 / publication , was met by a bookseller with the information that he had already purchased a
copy for 2 s . ; and he proceeded to exhibit it , still done up A in the orig inal brown paper J . J ., with
the publisher ^ ' s label attached , addressed to the editor of a journal for review . In ' The Press and the Society / the attitude
of the former to the Tatter is criticised at some ¦ leng ¦ bbp ^ b' •¦> «¦¦ t ^ Bh t V ^ h bp bb * , especiall ^ r r ^ f m ^ *^»* ^ b- * - "fc
I in the Contemporary lieciew ; to the author of which article the Author proceeds A . to
administer some very searching questions in return for a few the former had propounded in his article . The Contemporary reviewer
1 ** has our hearty commiseration , and we congratulate him on the fact that the Author is unable to castigate him if he cannot
work out correctly the following sum : — ' A publisher agrees to pay the author of a Os .
book , produced at publisher ' s risk and adver-1 ; tised cent , to on the the extent trade of price £ 30 , after a royalty 500 cop of ies 15 per are
sold pica , ; and the book contains is printed 21 ^ sheets in crown . What 8 vo ., is small the profit the author and publisher have
respoctively made after 8 , 000 copies have been soldi' We have , a very clear recollection of an inabilitywhen at school , to sit at ease for
, some days after a struggle with a far less intricate problem and a subsequent interview with our head master . Really equations of two
unknown quantities arc nothing to it ; the reviewer could have had no notion of what he was bringing on his devoted head ; the
victim would have to evolve out of his inner consciousness , in order to furnish his inquisitor with true informationsuch trifling details
, as the weight and quality of the paper on which the book is print JL . ed , whether the whole 3 , 7000
copies were printed at once ? if not , whether from standing type or plates ? If the former
whether the printer charg ed any rent for keeping his type standing 1 if the latter , the
cost of stereotyping of a page of dimensions
unknown beyond the rather vague statement
that it is crown octavo ? Of what size was the paper delivered to the printerand how many
pages JL JL did a sheet contain Jt ? and , if the whole -T 3 , _ 000 were -- not -- printed ^ - - - a . t once -- — , _ in editions — ___ ^ _ . ^^ - ^^ b ^^ of ^^ ^
what numbers were the copies produced ? What amount of gold there was on the
binding , and whether thero were gilt edges or or not not I i and ana , , la lastly stly , , but out anytnmg anything : but out least least
how many hours did the alterations the , author made in his proofsif anyoccupy the
, , compositor ? Really the childish riddle , ' If poker / tongs 7 and shovel / cost 3 s . 6 d . wha - » t v
x , zj , , , - « . « - will coals come to 1 ' is simplicity compared to this . We shall anxiously look for th e
answer which is promised in the next number . We repeat we cordially welcome the appearance of our young contemporary , and are glad
V *** Jk % f % of the reiterated statement « it contains that the Society has never had any quarrel with honourable members of our trade ; we had fearedwe
confess , that the Society was somewhat prone , to take managers of mushroom publishing firms and companies of the Trencher and
j . Me Andrew type portrayed in these pages , and from them , on the cxpe JL . de Ilerculem prin JL cip le , to
delineate publishers en masse . We are pleased to find we have been mistaken ; this would be as unjust as to take the reverend and
wello known author now languishing in prison for fraud and inebriety as a type of authors as a
class .
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700 The Publishers' Circular juhe 2 l 89 O
How Not To Catalogue Books.—The Whole Wo...
How Not to Catalogue Books . —The whole world has heard by this time of the
Bostonian ' s claim to have seen a book catalogue containing this entry :
ii ^ SCHYLUvS : Prometheus ... ( unbound . ) ' Which / he adds , 'is quite as good 111 its way as the entries :
Mill on the Floss , Do . on Liberty , and the excerpt from the catalogue of a country
JL <— V library : ' P ; itti Adel in ; 1 . Do Oyster . '
The French binder ' s error in labelling two volumes of * Uncle Tom ' s Cabin' ' L'Oncle , Tome Iand ' L'OncleTome II' is also
his' , torical , but hardly more deservedly so than that of the cataloguer who entered * " Heine ' s Songs' as ' Hen ' s Lays . ' —Queries Majazine
, Buffalo , N . Y . Public Libraries and the Public
Health . — Wo have on several occasions dis cussed the possibility of conveying infection
by means of books lent out by circulating libraries . That disease may be thus conveyed there can be no doubtthough this affords m >
real ground of objection , to the loan system u ordinary precautions be observed . It is therefore the more satisfactory to note that
librarians on their part are not inclined to neglect any duo care in this particular . As an
pursued instance , at we 0110 may public now establishment refer to the method of this kind where lists of all infected houses in the
surrounding streets are received weekly . The occupants of such housesif in receipt of
books , are warned not to , return them until
effectually disinfected . No doubt the Act tor |
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 700, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/12/
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