a place in the Dictionary of National Biography. In 1820 he issued proposals for a history of the town, which was published in the following year, and proved to be a valuable and well written work. He then commenced the issue of a yearly chronicle of events which was called the Tewkesbury Yearly Register and Magazine, and forms a supplement to the History. The first ten numbers were published in volume form in 1840, and ten years later a second series was completed. Bennett died in 1856. J. Smith was printing in 1821, J. Pearce in 1824, and James Mills in 1826. WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE Following chronological order the next town in Gloucestershire to own a press was Wotton-under-Edge, for, in the absence of evidence corroborating Cotton's statement that John Exel printed there in 1704, the earliest date which can be accepted is 1780, when Richard Dyde, no doubt connected with the Dydes of Tewkesbury, printed A portion of the Psalms selected from the Rev. James Merricks' new version for the use of the Church at Wandsworth." No other imprint of Dyde's is known, nor does another printer occur till 1807. The printing of the hymn book may have been due to Rev. Rowland Hill, who was associated with Wotton-under-Edge Chapel for some fifty years. Rules of the Dursley Corps of Volunteers were printed by Povey in 1807, and a hand-bill, “printed by Porter, Wotton-under-Edge in 1819, has been seen. Later printers were Bailey & Co. 1829, and Richard Bailey 1836-38. CHELTENHAM The first printer at Cheltenham was Samuel Harward, already mentioned under Tewkesbury. In 1786 he printed Observations on the Use and Abuse of the Cheltenham Waters, by J. Smith, M.D. Harward is known to have been in business at Cheltenham in 1803. He was followed by J. Shenton, whose imprint occurs on a threatre bill in 1786, and whose descendants have carried on the business to the present time. Other printers of the first half of the nineteenth century were H. Ruff (printer of the Cheltenham Chronicle) 1803; J. Sharp, 1810; J. K. & S. Griffith, 1811; S. Clutterbuck, 1818; F. Vigurs, 1818; S. Y. Griffith, 1818; H. J. Cochrane, 1819; J. Robinson, 1820; Turner & Hadley, 1820; J. J. Hadley, 1823; G. A. Williams, 1824; S. C. Harper, 1825; Griffith and Cunningham, 1827; E. Matthews, 1827; W. Paine, 1827; H. Davies, 1830; Cunningham & Co., 1831 ; G. P. Johnson, 1832; E. G. Wells, 1837; T. Rawlings, 1838. TETBURY Next in order of time comes Tetbury, where, in 1796, J. Wilton, of the "Apollo Press," printed a volume of Sermons by W. Russel. In 1797 he commenced the publication of a fortnightly periodical called The County Oracle and Political Intelligencer, though how long this continued has not been ascertained. imprints are those of J. G. Goodwyn, 1802, and Blackwell, 1836. STROUD Later Stroud became the centre for a number of printers, the first being W. S. Wilson, who printed a Sermon preached at Rodborough in 1803, and was in business until 1817. S. Jenner printed in 1806 the Bye-laws of the Lodge of Faith and Friendship, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, the imprint showing that he was himself a Freemason. He is known as a bookseller in Stroud as early as 1790. Fellowing these came F. Vigurs, 1815; George Skey, 1822; J. P. Brisley, 1822; B. Bucknall, 1827; W. A. Baylis, 1832; W. Harmer, 1833. DURSLEY, &c. W. Rickards began printing here in 1809 and continued until 1825, and possibly later. W. C. Ebsworth occurs in 1842 and John Stephens in 1844. Other Gloucestershire printers before 1850 are Frames, 1818; Blackwell, 1850; W. Partridge, 1832; all at Nailsworth; and R. W. Lane, 1835, of Stow-on-theWold. COLLOQUIALISMS (not invariably bibliographical) A dou Hints to Cataloguers: Please do not style a doublure a“ doublé." Doublé is a verb, and you therefore can't and musn't state that a binding has a doublé." What it has is a doublure. blure is a lining, and is therefore a noun. " And, among other things, don't forget that no person entitled "Lord Bacon " ever lived. The man so styled by ignoramuses was Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam & Viscount St. Alban, (not "St. Albans,' as some erroneously write Bacon's third title). It is late in the day to have to recall this vulgar error, but it crops up occasionally, even in London sale-catalogues, and when it does it should be promptly sat upon. His works should be headed thus:- Bacon (Sir Francis). Still we occasionally find the idiotic system of smattering English auctioncatalogues with descriptions in foreign languages. Lately a French book was catalogued thus :-" Première Edition (première volume, le seul publiée)", and others in German, Italian, Latin, etc. When, in vol. 3 of B. A. R., I rated the cataloguers for this stupidity The Athenaeum commended me for what it said were my very sensible comments upon the subject. It will be to the interest of the houses which employ such cataloguers if the latter understand that some booksellers are not linguists, and that anyhow an English catalogue should be in the English language. Why on earth that cataloguer could not have said 'FIRST EDITION, vol. 1, (all published) the Lord only knows-I don't. * With regard to Egan's Life in London it has been pointed out to me that The Dictionary of National Biography states that the first number appeared on July 15, 1821. Then follows: Imitations and pirated copies appeared, both of the text and pictures. The chief of the former was Real Life in London. May 1821 and following months to 1822, in sixpenny numbers.” The D. N. B. thus makes it appear that the imitation was issued two months previous to the book it imitates, i.e. Life in London, and this error causes confusion in the mind of the enquirer. For it was in July 1821 that the last number appeared, and not the first number, as may be seen by referring to the late Capt. Douglas's The Works of George Cruikshank, pages 1 and 263. Douglas states, quoting from copies in his possession, that the first number of Life in London was issued on Oct. 2, 1820 and the last number in July 1821. My correspondent seeks to know my reason for stating that Egan was not the author of Real Life in London, and points to the fact that the work appears under Egan's name in Halkett and Laing, and in two similar publications to B. A. R., one published in London and the other in New York. My only comment is, so much the worse for Halkett and Laing and Co. They should make sure of their " facts" before printing them, and especially so as there is so absolutely reliable a guide as Capt. Douglas's bibliography to help lame Cruikshankian dogs over the stile. One reason that Egan could not have been the author of Real Life in London as well as Life in London is that the works are utterly unlike in style, while a still more cogent reason is that for a part of the time the two works were appearing concurrently, viz. during the months of May, June and July, 1821, and nobody will make any reasonable person believe that during those months Egan was issuing, through two different publishers, two works, the second of which was evidently started in consequence of the success of the first, and only a weak imitation of it. So now let it be hoped that all cataloguers who are possessed of self-respect will avoid attributing Real Life in London to an author who must have felt that its appearance was an outrage upon his own work. An enquiry in B. A. R. brought evidence as to the identity of the author of Sergeant Bell. Can anybody throw any light upon the authorship of Real Life in London? * * On the cover of Part 3 of vol. 15 was an extract from an appreciative letter by a New York bookseller with respect to B. A. R. Before the printers' ink was dry a little packet came to hand in which was a handsome razor sent for my acceptance by a Sheffield bookseller who was kind enough to write that he offered it as some sort of acknowledgment of my efforts to be of assistance to booksellers. I returned it with many thanks, and explained that I had never had occasion to shave, and that as B. A. R. was more prosperous each year there did not seem to be any probability of my requiring his gift for lethal purposes. But I told him that at that moment I was badly wanting a real good pocket-knife- one that would cut something harder than butter-would, in fact, sharpen a pencil-most of the pocket-knives offered here doing nothing of the kind and only inducing an expenditure of sulphurous language. The pen-knife duly arrived, one made before the war and now the last of its race, and ever since I have daily blessed the name of my kind subscriber. * The Editor of The Publishers' Circular, in his review of B. A. R., said that I loved a joke. So I do, because life is so serious, and often so tragic, that we need beacons of light on the road to distract our attention from the sad things. And when we hear something good which others may not have heard we should pass it on. This is why I am printing the following story, which has nothing to do with books but it illustrates the pungent humour by aid of which our American cousins can get out of a difficulty. I only hope it isn't a chestnut." A traveller in the States engaged a bedroom at an hotel, and in the middle of the night was woke up by what proved to be a fight between a couple of enormous rats. He rang the bell and the landlord appeared. "What's the matter?” asked the landlord. "Why, there are a couple of rats fighting at the bottom of my bed," replied the traveller. The landlord considered a moment, and then said How much did you pay for the room?" Two dollars fifty," said the traveller. what did you expect for that money? Did you think you were going to get a bull-fight?'' " Well," said the landlord, * And now, subscribers mine, please don't say What an absurd person is FRANK KARSLAKE BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES N. B. All booksellers should put us on their list of names, as one never knows where, in any part of the world, a notice of a catalogue attracts attention and leads to business. A charge of threepence per line is made, to partly cover the cost of printing. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Bromley, Kent. G. H. Last, 29 The Broadway. Catalogue No. 71; Scarce Books, etc., 442 items, including the New York Herald, 1794-95, £5 58.; Camden's Britannia, 1789, extra-illustrated, in 3 vols., £15 108.; the rare extra plates to Master Humphrey's Clock, by Sibson, complete, £5; an Arabic MS.; a Log Book of one of Nelson's commanders, 46 10S.; an Autograph Letter by Thackeray, referring to his Parliamentary contest at Oxford, to Mrs. Gore, £5 178. 6d.; etc. etc. Leeds. James Miles, 34 Upperhead Row. Catalogue No. 210. Recent Private Norwich. W. P. Flavell, 8 St. Gregory's. Catalogue No. 31. A List of Scarce and Valuable Books, recently purchased from the Libraries of the late W. J. Birkbeck, Esq., of Stratton Strawless, and the late Rev. H. C. Green, of Framingham Pigott, 496 items, including an extra-illustrated Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries, by Leigh Hunt, from the library of Sir E. Brydges, 1828, £2 10s.; Works on Architecture, Art, Biography, Norfolk, Poetry, Theology, Philosophy, etc. Oxford. Leslie Chaundy, 104 High Street. Catalogue No. 33. Interesting Miscellaneous Books, including Modern Books, purchased privately, from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh; 540 items, under Archaeology, Architecture and Art, Economics, History and Military and Naval, Poetry, Shakespeariana, Theology, Travel, Topography, etc. Many editions of the 17th. and 18th centuries are included. Reading. G. A. Poynder, 4 Broad Street. Catalogue No. 76. A Short List of Miscellaneous Books, recently purchased from Private Libraries, 333 items, including A Godlie Garden, 1619, in an embroidered silk binding, with Tudor roses, etc., £12 128.; English Dance of Death, coloured plates by Rowlandson, 1815-16, £12 128.; The Little Library, 16 vols., 1831-35, 1 Is.; First Editions; Borrow's Lavengro, 1851, £5 5s; Rocque's Survey of Berks, 1761 £3 13s. 6d.; etc. Stratford-on-Avon. Antiquarian Book Co., Invermark, Evesham Road. Catalogues Nos. 14-15-16; First Editions, Fine Editions and Rare Editions, 1721 items, including Ackermann's History of Oxford, 2 vols., uncut, 1814; Letchford's Illustrations to Burton's Arabian Nights, Edition de Luxe; Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1899; Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë, fine copy, 1849; Caldecott's Picture Books, complete set, 16 vols.; Through the Looking Glass, 1872; Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Venus and Adonis, Doves Press; Gerning's Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, 1820; Vicar of Wakefield, Hugh Thomson's illustrations, Large Paper, 1890; Fied Piper of Hamelin, plates by Kate Greenaway; Ben Jonson's Works, by Gifford, 9 vols., calf extra, 1816; Lang's Blue Fairy Book, large paper, 1889; Meyer's British Birds, coloured plates, 1835-41; Œuvres de Rabelais, par Le Duchat, Amst., 1741; Collection of Portraits of Shakespeare; Harding's Shakespeare Illustrated, large paper, 1793; Surtees, Hillingdon Hall, 1888; Yeats (W. B.) Collected Works, 8 vols., 1908; Bewick's British Birds, with Supplements, Imperial Paper, morocco extra, by Sangorski, 1821; Blake's Life and Works, by Gilchrist, 1880; Tour of Dr. Syntax through London, boards, uncut, 1820; Conrad's Works, Complete Set of First Editions, 20 vols., newly bound by Sangorski, 1895-1917 ; Nicholas Nickleby, with the extra set of coloured plates by Onwhyn, 1839; Fielding's Novels, 5 vols., Eallantyne Press, 1884; Charles Dickens, by George Gissing, with postcard by Gissing added, 1895; Vicar of Wakefield, illustrated by Mulready, 1843; Memoirs of Count Grammont, edited by H. Vizetelly, plates, 1889; Lamb's Works, first collected edition, 2 vols., 1818; Lang's Fairy Books, Complete Set, 12 vols.; Shakespeare's Works, by Valpy, 15 vols., 1832-34; Morte d'Arthur, Ashendene Press, fine copy, 1913; Beardsley's Morte d'Arthur, 1893; Beardsley's Land of Heart's Desire, The Savoy, Book of Fifty Drawings and Second Book of Fifty Drawings, all fine copies; Mrs. Behn's Works, by Montague Summers, one of 50 copies, 1915; Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition Catalogues :—School of Ferrara-Bologna, School of Siena, & Early Venetian Pictures; The Doves Press Holy Bible, 1902-4; Descent of Ishtar, Eragny Press, 1903; Erasmus, Praise of Folly, Essex House Press, 1901; Autograph Letters by George Gissing; Kate Greenaway's Almanacs, Complete Set; Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873; Kipling's In Black & White (1887); Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance, 1873: The Song of Songs, Riccardi Press, 1909; Pollard's Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, a Study, 1909; Swinburne's Laus Veneris, first American Edition, N.Y., 1866; Selections from Swinburne's Poems, presentation copy from the poet, 1887; Swinburne's The Age of Shakespeare, presentation copy from the poet, 1908; a number of Vale Press books; many first editions of modern Celtic and Anglo-Saxon authors; etc. etc. * Catalogues received since going to press will be noticed in the next Part. |