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    Adam Black. Alexander In The ' Mem Nicol...

    the Black establishment afterwards of obtained the successors employment of the in

    wit memoir eccentric h the , ' establishment Lackington He was not , but . favourabl It , again was named y quoting impressed " The the

    the Temp inscri le of ption the , Muses , " and over the door was

    LACKINGTON , ALLEN , & Co ., which THE CHEAPEST a small bookseller BOOKSELLERS on the IN THE opposite WORLD side ,

    r fairly parodied by calling himself , Greenland , the Cheapest Bookseller in

    FlNSBtTRY . ' An interesting note regarding the great

    size of the establishment is given , and we are told that the salary of the future publishe r

    which of 1 Waverley the he ' Encyclopaedia lived Novels and was was Britannica then happy 18 althoug s . a ' week and h , the on

    prices prevailed , and the ' quartern , loaf was Is . and rose to Is . 4 d . I '

    , A fine description is given of a scene in Drury Lane Theatreon a ' Hoyal' niht

    , g Pr eig incesses hty years were ago , when present the . King But , , Queen interes , ti ng

    London though t experiences hey are , we , and must reach hasten more over propitious these

    times when , after Black returned to Edinburgh : ' " The shop , No . 57 South Bridge , was

    taken for him and he entered it at Whitthree sunday 1807 of , being . then just over twentyyears

    They were age stirring political times when d Adam Black usand began Black business 4 knew . Partisanshi that not p was angero many

    years ago ( , 1793 ) a friend of his , Walter Berry , also been a imprisoned bookseller for on six the months North Brid in the ge , Tol had

    booth for publishing a " seditious pamphlet " the denouncing Governments the extravagant of the country wars had in involved which

    heed it since to 1688 the ; terrorism ' consequentl which y he prevailed shrewdly , gave and

    him if confessed a stranger reading * that came Cobbett it so into ' far s Political the influenced shop Reg and him ister found , that he

    carefully put it out of sight . ' Many eminent men time attached frequent visitors to the Whi at Black g party 's shop were . at this

    His business connection with London was old for a shopmate time resumed , Thomas in 1809 Underwood or 1810 , , proposed when an to

    buy the business of a bookseller named afterwards Grace , and the a more proposal ambitious was agreed step was to . taken Soon ; its

    b Quarterl y ori Sheriff gin y and Revie Nicolson result w , and : ' are Murray was admirabl removing had y set described up from the Fleet

    posed Street that Underwood to Albemarle and Black Street . should He pro buy - ais Fleet Street business for £ 3000 .

    Underbargain wood , believing the like this of which to be would an , extraordinary happen

    again to hear , wrote fro , m him to , Black agreed ; but to purchase , without never Murray waiting 's whol

    then e hm stock chie , f his business copyrights and of his medical lease book of the s ,

    a > P ' > et the price asked , , and to give bills E _T _yi _-i —— -. _ " _?• ' »* ' ¦ _ ii ' i . ii , , I . a . m n i i I ' m . ii . ¦ ' _¦ "' t i . . _,,

    —Blac for the k was whol horrified e , payable on at hearing certain terms of this . Adam grand

    could performance not possibl , knowing y raise that funds between sufficient them they to

    meet the bills when due . He declined to had concur committed in the arrangement himself and , his but partner Underwood and

    property ment Murray , having would in Albemarl come not under consent e Street engagements to . ' drop the for agree , the

    th brother e Difficulties vent Charles ure , and arose to finally ' in drop getting Adam the building others induced to trade join his

    and Charles join went him and to London Underwood to take in bookselling part in the . '

    business and the firm of Underwood and Blacks Fleet Street took . ' the Underwood place of John bought Murray both , the in

    brothers he ' had out great in ly 1813 more , and pleasure Adam in declared getting that out

    than he had in getting in . ' ori Black inators was of th well e Scotsman acquainted new with all which the g

    started upon its eminently success spaper ful career , in the McCulloch year 1817 . , the first editor being J . It .

    Encyclopaedia In 1827 he Britannica purchased the conce copyri rning ght of wh the ich

    Sheriff Nicolson supplies , some authentic and highly interesting information . The publication

    of the seventh edition was commenced in March 1830 , and was completed in 1842 .

    £ which ' 13 The 887 outlay £ 8 on , 755 contributions on were this edition expended £ 13 was 158 ± on ' 10 on 8 , editing 766 lates , of ,

    £ 29 , , 279 on paper , £ 19 , 813 , on printing , , _± p 3 , 356 , on stereo tingt' 14305 on bindingand

    15 , 354 on advertising yp , . ' ,, It was in April 1851 that the copyrihts of

    Sir Walter Scott ' s works were hase g d from Bobert Cadell's trustees . purc

    Mr . Black formally retired from business in his 1870 successors , when he being was in his his sons eight James y-seventh Francis year ,

    , , and Adam . Four years later—on the 24 th of January , 1874—he died , his last words being ,

    ' I feel a tightening of the ropes that draw me up to heaven . '

    We may truly say that Sheriff Nicolson ' s work is one of the best among the many read- I

    able books which deal with the bibliopoles of I a past generation . What we have taken the

    liberty of quoting forms but a tithe of the interesting matter that may bo found in its

    but pages in . other Politicall respects y , its its interest claims to may widespread be local ,

    Our and onl enduring objection attention is one cannot that be gainsaid easil .

    contents remedied y . We and hope an index that in will future bo may introd editions uced y . ,

    pages

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    Oct . 15 , 1885 The Publishers' Circular * 1071

    ^Otcit Am &Cto$.

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    that the mistak successful e by publication reminding is our from readers the press that of

    Messrs , J . S . Virtue < fc Co ,, Limited , __ . ___!_! _ ... .. Ml ' ' — ' ' - ' ___"___________________„_ ' . ' - "' " > nw _^ Skl

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1071, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/11/