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¦ipm^ • * ' • I 0*1* 18*4 The Publishers...
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I 188 Fleet Street : Nov. 15. 1884.
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¦Ipm^ • * ' • I 0*1* 18*4 The Publishers...
¦ ipm ^ * ' I 0 * 1 * 18 * 4 The Publishers Circular j ^
I 188 Fleet Street : Nov. 15. 1884.
I 188 Fleet Street : Nov . 15 . 1884 .
I Fflhe X Already Fall Of Broug Our The ...
I fflHE X already fall of broug our the world leaf ht , with which books it many always and losses claims in its the counterpart comparativel fro y m limited the great circl human e of men family who , has are I concerned ^«^ rned in in ourwona of 01 dooks anu book uooK--making maKing , , and ana the une death aeatn of 01 the tne Postmaster Jfostmaster--General lxeneral ia is
I manuals in a double of the sense science a loss which to literature he * professed . As an at author Cambrid , Mr ge . , Fawcett and as was a disci chiefl ple y of known John Stuart by his H Mill » r : i 1 ? though + > innorh he he was WftS no no mere mere servile Servile copyist CODViat . he he gave firave in in his his little little * book honk a treatise trwa / Hatt whipJh which was w « . a
I I consp it never icuous crushed at jp Fawcett once awceit , his for activity its tenure tenure point , he of and would tne the lucidit headshi doubtless y , . If have the loss contributed of itice sight will more had not largel remembered hindered y to our , though
book-I other shelves . uWfls things . , w M , r . . by the introduction 's s or of the neaasnip Parcels p of or Post the me , Post . rosr the value Office uwill of which be be remem to publishers bered , , among amoncr and I I moderate mnd book arate -buyers tarin tariff has , , msieaa instead been considerable or of being Deing compeuea compelled , by enabling to do cnoose choose them between to Derween send a the xne volume cneap cheap securel book oooR- y -rate rate packed , with witn at its its a
rule of l open at both ends , ' and the still costly letter postage . It has often surprised , us that I Mr over . Fa the wcett regulations , with his affecting strong common the transmission sense , did of not partl clear y-printed up the and ambi partl guity y-wri which tten still documents hangs bookratesthe of Post Office in
I at the -post , varying practice employSs different parts of I I at the St country . Martin bein ' s-le g -Grand at present have a ruled serious , for nuisance example . , that As m a atters circular stand entirel , the y printed authorities on I which t a cuttin ¦ g from an almanac is pasted for correction cannot be sent 4 fc by
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H many years the head of the house of Hamilton , Adams , & Co . The account of this gentle-H man ' s careerwhich BB we are enabled ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ to give in another pagewill show how ampl BT he fulfilled
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com-H mended to all who are entering on life in the varied branches of the associated trades as H worthy of universal imitation . Yet a third name stands before us , recalling a long service of
H useful work—that of Mr . Octavian JBlewitt , the secretary for five and forty years of the Royal H Literary Fund , to which he devoted all : his energy and ability .
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¦ II I ? J ^ cate ( i by permission to the Empress Euge ' nie . , Another novelty from the firm is to be the ¦ II I 17 mth » ? tralasi quarter an ' Birthday of the -book lobe . , ' which is to be made up of extracts from poets domiciled in the g
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1884, page 1191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111884/page/3/
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