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March 15 ,1890 The Publishers' Circular ...
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___-*O*.~ The Booksellers' Trade Dinner....
astute men , and that authors were a race of abnormal - ^ ^ , . _ _ - — — -. ly simple men . His experience __ ___ — — _ . _ . was
that , _ the _ authors ^ ^ were pretty well a ^ ble to take care _ ^^^_ i of themselves . It was certain that — _ " ~~ ~ " the ^_ ^~ _^^^^_ ^^^ . __ ^ B _ jb _ k ^ b ^ ^ — __ .
forcible separation of author ^ and publisher had been very rare , and if all connected with the professions represented—writerspublishers
, , booksellers , stationers , and printers—worked on principles of justice and fairness , success would reward each class of workers . He
believed the aim of great publishers nowadays was not so much to see who could go ahead in the commercial race as to improve what
was best in literature , and to induce the public to buy what was best . He also mentioned that the London Chamber of Commerce
would be very glad to facilitate any meeting
Mr . Quaritch insisted upon the great importance importance 01 of trie the second second--hand hand book book trade trade , and and
defended the existence of the knock-out system , at auctions . In India there were no
secondhand books . As soon as a gentleman died his books were simply sold as waste paper . Second-hand booksellers were ¦ ~~ ~^_ most ~¦ ~^^ ~ industrious » ^^^^_ FV WP V V ^ ~_ ^^^^— " ^— " ^^ ^^^_ ° ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^_ *^^
men ; their energy was boundless , and their memory was fabulous . Twenty years ago there was a good sale at Plymouthand ail the
dealers went down . They got as , far as Exeter , and there found the railway had been swept away % / . However / when the sale ____ commenced _ __
they were all there , . He deprecated the practice of allowing 25 per cent , to the public by the retail bookseller . That was a suicidal
policy to pursue ( applause ) .
SKETCHES AT THE BOOKSELLERS' TKADt DINNER AT THE . HOLBOKN RESTAURANT . j
between publishers and booksellers for the purpose of discussing trade questions . Mr . 80 thera . 11 and Mr . Quaritoh then
replied for 'The Booksellers / Mr . Sotheran , in his speech , said that during CJ nearly 00 years •/ of bookselling « —' he had
had great opportunities of observing the trade in all its branches , and especially of the unfortunate —^— 0 i new-bookselling i i k trade i which _ ,.... received _ _
25 ^^ p 4 ^ — per ^ ^ f ^ — . jq ^ 1 cent _ p —* ^_» ^ ¦ _^ , - »— - v and » —_ ^— gave ^— - ¦ ' — - —— ' — 25 ——— - ^« ^— MV per ^^^ - _ -- cent w __ — . ^^ , —1 . He thoug — — _ ht it was time that the existinjr state of affairs in
regard to the circulation of new books should come to an end . It was not fair that the booksellers should work all day long for so
little , and ho suggested a conference of the leading publishers , who ahould afterwards call a meeting of the retail trade of London
( applause ) .
Visitors Mr . , J . to VV which . Butterworth Mr . VV . JL proposed . Courtenay 4 The , of the Daily Telejrap j \ a , h , rin the absence of Mr .
Archibald Grove , responded . Glancing at the 1 plan of the tables , Mr . Courtenay said he could not find the name of the gentleman who
published his books . Probably he was , as ' had been suggested with regard to some of the publishor-jalso in the Institution . With
reference , to the alleged disputes between authors and publishers a , the only thoug m O— ht th
---a-t-had occurred to him in this connection was that ' Barabbas was not a publisher' (
laughter and applause ) . Mr . H . Rider Haggard , whose rising was
the signal for prolonged applause , proposed' The Chairmin and Vice-Chairman / In pleasures
ho said , as in everything else , there are , ' ~ ~~ " Aitk
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/11/
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