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692 The Publishers' Circular June 2, 18 ...
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LITBRABY INTELLIGENCE 692 IN MEMORIAM 70...
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St. Dunstan's House, E.C.,
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June 2, 1890. "I TA"NY great — and unexp...
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Litbraby Intelligence 692 In Memoriam 70...
LITBRABY INTELLIGENCE 692 IN MEMORIAM 702 BOOKS AND RUMOURS OF BOOKS 693 REVIEWS , & c 703
NOTES AND NEWS 695 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT CONTINENTAL N 0 TE 3 697 BRITAIN BETWEEN MAY 16 & 31 707
THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND CENTENARY .... 698 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM A HINT TO BYRON COLLECTORS 698 MAY i 6 T 0 31 ' * " 7 m
' THE AUTHOR' 609 NEW B 00 KS ANI > BOOKS LATELY PUB , I HOW - &\» ff NOT JLT JL TO -JL - * S \ CATALOGUE S J-ft-JJL 4 J VJt V J —• BOOKS -V- •••••••• • I » ----- 700 " — - — LISHED 711 . * . ^ . * K * . . ^_ . . ¦_ ... _^ ^ * ' *— ' ""¦ *— ' ¦" |
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH .. 700 | MISCELLANEOUS 723 i RETIREMENT MUflJ < BfllU OF " MR aift > . < JOSEPH IW " TAB X ^ * " 701 V i ^^ L ^^ ' \'' "' , 734 If .
PUBLISHERS AND THE BANKRUPTCY - BILL .... 701 j ASSISTANTS BUSINESSES WANTED FOR SALE ................ 735 | TRADE CHANGES IN NEW YORK 701 SITUATIONS WANTED 735 '
MR . RUSSELL LOWELL ON COPYRIGHT 701 BOOKS FOR SALE 736 TRADE CHANGES ..,.. 702 | BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE ,.. 736
St. Dunstan's House, E.C.,
St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C .,
June 2, 1890. "I Ta"Ny Great — And Unexp...
June 2 , 1890 . "I TA"NY great — and unexpected — changes have
- * - » - * - taken place in recent years in the publishing trade , but scarcely any have been more
memorable than that which is just announced . The rumours which have been floating about
Paternoster Row concerning impending alterations of an important kind have been definitely
set at rest by the authoritative statement of the purchase by Messrs . Longmans & Co . of the
business of Messrs . Rivington , of Waterloo Place . Mr . Francis H . Rivington , the present
sole proprietor of the well-known business which bears his name , has transferred the
entire interest of his firm to Messrs . Longmans , and this arrangement takes effect on July 1 .
We are informed that in future the business will be carried on by Messrs . Longmans alone ,
and that they will supply from their house in Paternoster Row all the publications of
Messrs . Rivington . We are sorry to think that the name of the oldest house in the
business in London will thus disappear from the trade lists after a highly honourable
as well as successful association with the best traditions of publishing . during a
period which bridges the distance between tho middle of tho reign of Queen Anne
and the closing days of Queen Victoria . Whilst , however , tho name of Rivington aa
that of a distinct firm is on the eve of extinction , it still survives in connection with
the house of Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . and we believo ultimately in connection with
Messrs . Percival ct Co ., a member of which firm was till recently a partner in tho historic
business so long associated with Waterloo Place .
Charles Rivington , the founder of the family fortunes , was born at Chesterfield in
Derbyshire , towards the end of the seventeenth
century , and as a lad was sent to London to serve serve his nis apprenticesnip apprenticeship witn witht ivir Mr . . Matthews Matthews .
, at that time a well-known theological bookseller of the town . In 1711 Richard Chiswell
who died , was and known the premises in his day and as business the metropolitan of a man
of booksellers' came into possession of young Rivington , who from that time forward traded
under the sign of the ' Bible and the Crown . * At the outset the business consisted largely in
the publication of volumes of sermons on commission , and Anglican theology has always
been a speciality with the firm . Oddly enough , Charles Rivington ' s greatest hit as a
¦ publisher » " * * i r" \ I l rwr ~ i rwm was Tirn ct with "Wirri f * l ~ fc Richardson l-r ¦ s % r \ *\ »»/~ J ci S \ irk ' s ' Pa E- ' r * m w- » ela /\ ln , ' a -k ' novel which Pope declared would do more good
than twenty sermons , and which ran through five editions in a single year . Charles
Rivington died in 1742—the year after ' Pamela ' appeared- —and the business which he
establish ed has remained ever since in the hands of his descendants . The firm published ' Dr . Dodd ' s
Commentary 7 and ' Cruden ' s Concordance / About the time of the accession of George I .,
John Rivington became publisher to the Society for tho Promotion of Christian
Knowledge , and this appointment , we believe , remained ¦ ------- — — - ¦ — - ¦—i - ^^ v ^ — in i i —¦ _~ the - ^ — ^ ^^ »~ famil ^ - w ^ ^ __ ^ ^^ y — ^ for ^ -k ** - sh seventy F ^^ ^ fc ^ w ^^ J * ** ^^ years W ^^ S **» ** " »*^ " .
Through the i Annual Register / which they conducted for a while for Dodsley , the
Rivingtons gained the powerful friendship of Edmund Burke , and published some of his later works .
Perhaps tho most sensational publications which this eminently staid establishment over
produce the Times d . were 7 This the broug epoch ht them -making into ' association Tracts for
with Newman , Pusey , Keblo , and Williania , and since 1833 they have been closely
associated with the High Church movement . Five years after Charles Rivington
commenced business on his own account at the
sign of tho * Bible and Crown , ' Thomas
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/4/
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