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      Sal^ Joihti Gf There Is To Be A Sale Of ...

      r A copy of Nichols ' s S Leicestershire' on large paper is to be sold on the 16 th . This ' is one of the rarest of county histories , and should bring a large sum . Lord _Gosforct _' s copy brought £ 280 , the Comerford copy _£ 3 Q 0 . * .

      An Impostor. To The Jsmtor Of The Publis...

      AN IMPOSTOR . To the _JSMtor of the Publishers' Circular . Sir , —Kindly allow me a few lines to caution members of the trade against _sending any goods to a ' gentleman' at Dublin without making due inquiries .- - He makes free use of printed headings and is lavish in the use of india-rubber stamps , and on the face of the order has the appearance of being a most respectable person . As the highest member of the trade , B . Quaritch , and the lowest , myself , have been favoured with his orders , it will be seen he is no respecter of persons Writin . g to a highl - y - respectable and wellknown firm in Dublin ( to Whoin _Tny sincere thanks are due ) _inquiring as to his status , they reply : ' We have liad no end of letters to answer from , inquirers , most of whom [ like myself ] have written after the mischief was done . We would not give this scoundrel credit from the counter to the door . ' I will give name to any inquirer . Leamington . * J . Coluer .

      Ti^Ad^ Cx^Ange^ Messrs. Longmans, Green ...

      _Ti _^ ad _^ CX _^ _ange _^ Messrs . Longmans , Green & Co . are opening premises in Kirby Street , Hatton Garden , as of publishers 4 The Ship ' bookbinders Binding Works , under . '; They the name have secured the assistance of Mr . H . Olney , late of Messrs . Westleys , as general manager , and > n and after January 2 , 1888 , will be ready to execute orders from the trade . journal Decoration devoted _, the to the well house -known -painting monthl and y decorating trades—published since its first issue , more than seven years ago , by Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston & Co . — -will , after the December Deihton number 6 York , Street be published Covent by Garden Mr . P . lat L e . publishing g , manager to the , eminent technical , hook house of Messrs . Crosby Lockwood So Co . The editorship will remain in the experienced hands of Mr . J . Moyr Smith . . I-S _ I ii

      _ About Christmas Books And Numbers. •Me...

      _ ABOUT CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND NUMBERS . _medi There um than is , it the seenis Christmas to us , no number more suitable of the _Publishers' Circular in which to record a rapid _glance literature —a which brief Yule historical -tide has retrospect especially —at cal the led forth since the invention of printing . An ancient

      _ About Christmas Books And Numbers. •Me...

      poet has sung of the * incalculable laughing of V the the with Waves waters its ' perpetual , ' having of the at bri play the ght of time and myriad in splendid his s of mind diainond . / Egean ' s eye , vie sparkles , or pretend ; ' and so or we endeavour , in the nineteenth to vie , with century each , other ality and in frank friendshi joyousness p during and the nei regim ghbo e u of rly at cordi least - one period in the year ' s career . It is this , perhaps the the growth very best and aspect development of human of nature Christinas , to which books massy any and It approach Christmas is ' , book probabl appeared to numbers y accuracy , quite . may impossible But , when be we traced do the know to first . state that ' Christ , with for - part over of a the century sixteenth —that or is early to say years , un of til the the seven latter - teenth century—the seasonable publications were almost solely composed of carols . One of the very Carolles earliest , ' and of had these the followin was entitled g colophon ' _Christmasse ? : ' Thus endeth the Christmasse Carolles newly imprinted sonne at Lorde London , hy _M-DiXXI Wynk in the yn . ' Flete It de was - Worde strete a quarto . at the The , and sygne y , ere of course of of the our , was printed in black _Jetter . The only portionbook by a fragment Warton is in the as —that composed _Bodleian has yet .- Library of been ' ¦ festal discovere . \ ch It ansons is described d of for thi en s - li and vening not the such merriments reliious of the Christmas as are current celebrity at : this day with the common gsongs people under the same title , _& nd which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth , the Puri-• tahs . ' •— i Worde Just _' s publica twenty ti - o two n , _Jlohn years Mayle aft r issued er Wynk ' ( in yn 1543 de ) an octavo ' Christmas Banskette . Philemon the and maker Christopher of the Banskette the gestes , . ' Theop There hyle were Eusebius several other * Christmassy' books published during the the latter printer half - of booksellers the sixteenth who century licensed , and books among of carols were : W . Griffith , in October , 1564 ; J . Allde , in 1567 , 1579 , and on December 7 , 1580 ; _^ 1593 B . Jones Joh , n in Wolf 1569 ; on Abel December Jeffes , 11 on -1593 October John 9 , Tsdal ; 1562-3 and , TColwellin 1569 , . ; It will be y seen , , therefor ; , that , the appearance , of Christmas books months before Yule-tide is by no means a modern innovation of publishers , who have been adva so mu nce ch of abused the season for publishing 1 The first books entry greatl of _4 y _-llde in runs thus : ' A Christinmas Warnynge for hym y * iutendethe his fryndes to . Ry A ballad and . m ' Another mery abr ( oade supposed with unique entitled ' publi Christmas cation Ca roles conside ' whic rab h w le as i imprin nterest ted is Long ' in the Shop Powltry under by R Saynt ichard , K My ele ldrede , dwelly ' s n Chy g at rche the . ' This curious work is a black-letter octavo of eight n leaves umbe , and of books has a o woodcut f carols which on the title e -page ared . The the app rap seve idi nteenth ty with which nd eig they hteenth , like centuries their predec , and essor th s e , were thumbed and worn out of existence , forbid anything like an inclusive list being drawn up of them . books Ther to which are several it will othe not r qu be aint out old of lace ristmas to draw attention at this seasonand for p much of the information concerning which , we are indebted _Hajzlitt to the . recondite A very curious investigation examp s le of has Mr . the Carew following Imprisioning title : of * The Christmas Arraignement , with , an Conviction Hue and , and Cry A

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1887, page 1507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121887/page/85/