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    ¦ - . i ; ST . DUNSTAJSTS HOUSE , FETTER LANE .

    Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . ' s Ne tv Premises .

    Our illustration shows the exterior of St . Dimstan ' s House , Fetter Lane , being the new

    premises of Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . The house has been erected on land which has been — long vacant adjoining the Record office

    within about C 3 sixty yards «» of Fleet Street , from __ , which a clear view of the building is obtained .

    Uiose Close behind behind is is ( Clifford Jlittord . ' s s Inn inn , . the the ^ / oldest oldest Inn Inn in in Chancery , originally a town house of the Clifford ancestors of the Earls of Cumberland . The

    great Hobbes at one time lived in Clifford ' s Jnn . Like nearly all the offshoots of Fleet Street ,

    Fetter Lane has a considerable share of literary associations . Dryden is said to fyave lived there

    in a house ( now in course of demolition ) directly opposite to Messrs . Low & Co . ' s establishment .

    The street is also noted on account of its being the scene of the collapse of the poet Waller ' s

    political plot . In more modern times interest has been attached to the neighbourhood

    through its having been the scene of the school life of Charles Lamb , a period which the gentle essayist pleasantly describes' in a

    letter appearing in Hone ' s * Every-day Book . histori Possi cal bl nam y it e would more 4 «•» appropriate be difficult for to find a pub an

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    the ^ memory of that wonderful man ,, whom shops Malmesbury of some call of s the the «/ AA prince most notable JLJk oi monks booksellers H ^ , were the

    of the XT ^ - * - olden 'MV ^ AAAV days ^^ Jb . \^ AAJLXJTKJ Mr . Walter V ^ VV ^ VPw ^ Jk ^/ Thornbury _ V- ^ V ^ * J » . K * 1 ^ AAV A j says : c JAjoaong the booksellers who crowded

    round old St . Dunstan ' s were Thomas Marsh , of the hroni " cles Prince ' s Armsi" who printed Stow ' s

    in <¦ ^ " »— C Falcon " ¦ ^* J" ^ Ma ^ ¦ , ^ in ; > St and . Dunstan . ak William . ^ ' s Churc Griffith . * hyard M , oi , who the

    * Oorboduc 15 ^ 5 issued / ' writt , without en b the Tho authors mas No ' rton consen and t ,

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    verse . John Smetnwicke , a still moue honoured

    name Church 4 r , Ci published under the diall Hamlet " of " St and . Dunstan 4 < Romeo ' s

    , and Juliet ^ --Richard iMarriot , another St . Dunstan ' s booksellerpublished Quarles' **

    Eni-, blems , " Dr . Donne ' s Sermons , that delightful simple-hearted book , 'jzaak Walton ' s * '

    Compleat Angler , " and Butler ' s "Hudibras , " that wonderful mass of puns and quibblespressed

    close as potted meat . Matthias Walker , , a St . Dunstan rm am w v v ' v s bookseller w < » iw was V V *< « one - of the three ^^^^^ ^^^^*^ p ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ' ^^^ ^^*^^ ^^ ^^^ ^™ ^^ ^^ " . ¦ , . . ^^ ^ ' ^ ^^ % ^^ r ^»^^ ^ b ^^ ^ fc db ^^ r ^^ ^ " ^* ^^^ ^^^

    timid publishers who ventured on a certain poem called "The Paradise Lost . "'

    Manyeminent divines have been clergyman in St . Dunstan ' s Church ; while Fetter Lane has a peculiar Nonconformist repute . Smithin — Ma

    JL J . , I 'Streets of London , ' says the chapel of the Moravian Brethren was the meeting-house of

    the celebrated Dr . Bradley . Baxter , Wesley , and Whitfield have preached in the same

    place . The father of C . H . Spurgeon was pastor of another chapel in the same locality ., Messr 3 . Sampson Low & Co . ' s premises

    have a frontage JL of 80 feet and a depth X of 70 feet . The elevation is of Portland stone and Wilcock's ivory-white bricks , the general

    effect being bright and cheerful- —a great improvement to this end of Fetter Lane . The interior of the building ( which

    comprises a total of over 20 , 000 square feet of floor space ) has been specially designed by

    Messrs . Low & Co . for the requirements of I their businessand has been fitted with every

    necessary convenience , and modern improvement ment . - The The staircases staircases throughout throughout are are or of iron iron

    concrete , more durable than stone , and perfectly fireproof .

    The building has been erected by Messrs- I Patman A mA ) VAA 4 I VA 4 < ^^ fe « ' Fothering •*¦ * - ^ »/ ****^*» ft jTy ham AAtoVWUia , under « w » # > - ^ ^^^> the m ^»^^ - » « active ^ w ^» »^ ¦• » ^>* ¦ I :

    superintendence ^ ckham Withering of tori the , and architect will , be Mr read . W . ]

    for few occupation weeks . ¦ ,. by Messrs . Low within the next * | I \

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 16, 1887, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16051887/page/7/