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    • ¦ - »<>? .. THE SPRING TRADE 1^ THE UN...

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    THE BICENTENARY OF SAMUEL ¦ ^ RICHARDSON...

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    meeting Messrs at . Exeter Casseli. Hall...

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    Mr . George . R . Sims , (* Dagonet' ) ; Rev . Prof . ; Skeatof Cambridgeauthor of the

    Etymolog author ical , Dictionary of the traged '; , Mrs y . The Augusta Sentence Webster 7 and ,

    several other volumes of ' poetry ; and Col . Sir Charles W . Wilson , of the Ordnance Survey .

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    • ¦ - »<>? .. The Spring Trade 1^ The Un...

    • ¦ - »<>? .. THE SPRING TRADE 1 ^ THE UNITED STATES .

    upon The the pro whole spects up for to the the present Spring time trade good are , ;

    butj after all , this , is a mere surmise , both , upon the part of the publishers and the jobbers .

    the The Easter Spring holidays business is and greatl as y this ¦¦ influenced festival i f b is y

    ver -mm ^» ^ m ^^^ y ^^ tmW late ^^ ^ W ^ V * . ^ ¦ ^^ ^^^ this ^^ ^ Bm ^^ m " ^^^ year ^^^>^ V ^ ^^^^ ^ W ^^^ 1 , » - ^^ the . , ^ p ' ^^ ^ ¦ ~ probabilities ^ " - ^^ ^ ¦ - ^— — » ^^ ¦ are " ^ - » - " ^ ^ that ™ ^——the bulk of the Sprin ¦ g trade will be crowded

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    both the East and West , are rather above the averageand are mostly for light literature in

    small quantities , , although some library orders have been forwarded .

    but From from the the South South the -west prospects and North are - also west good the ,

    to general be below reports the show the eand amount orders of business come in averag

    but slowly . The travellers , of the leading publishing houses in these localities report a

    towns general and du an lness inclination , especiall to y concentrat in the smaller e

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    April 5 , 1889 .

    Meeting Messrs At . Exeter Casseli. Hall...

    meeting Messrs at . Exeter Casseli . Hall & Co on ., A Limited pril 5 . — of At the a

    over employ which es of the Messrs Rt . Hon . Casseli . A . J . < Mundella fe Co ., Limited M . P . ,

    presided , some interesting information , in , regard to the growth and sucee » B of the great

    publishing house in Belle Sauvage . Yard was given by Mr . T . D . Galpin . It ajppears that

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    side contained a length in all of the 567 cop 000 ies mi were les o p f laced paper side wou b ld y

    be obtained , . ' Messrs , . Cassell have also sold nearly a . million , copies of the Bible .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1889, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041889/page/11/