No More Learning

A comedy. 1799.
Letters of a Solitary Wanderer. 5 vols. 1801.
Conversations introducing poetry; chiefly on subjects of natural history.
2 vols. [1804. ]
Beachy Head; with other poems. 1807.
The Natural History of Birds. 2 vols. 1807.
Elwood, Anne K. Memoirs of the literary ladies of England. 2 vols.
1843.
L'Estrange, A. G. K. The Life of M. R. Mitford. 1870.
Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford
The Castle of Otranto. A Story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent.
From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of
St Nicholas at Otranto. 1765. [Written 1764. ] 2nd edn. 1765. 5th
edn. 1786. 6th edn. Parma, 1791. Rptd with a Memoir by Scott, Sir
W. , 1823 and 1883. Transl. into French, 1767; into Italian, 1795.
G. A. B. AND A. T. B.
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CHAPTER XIV
BOOK PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION, 1625-1800
In addition to the books mentioned in this list, the lives and correspond-
ence of the prominent literary men of the time-Dryden, Swift, Pope,
Johnson, Goldsmith and others-contain much information respecting the
relations between author and publisher during this period. The D. of N. B.
should also be consulted for notices of the more important publishers and
booksellers, and for sources of fuller information. For a list of works on
bookbindings, see the bibliography to chap. xviii in vol. iv, ante (p. 548).
I. GENERAL WORKS
Barwick, G. F. Some magazines of the eighteenth century. Bibliographical
Soc. Trans. Vol. x. 1910.
Beljame, A. Le public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre, 1660-1744.
Paris, 1883.
Birrell, A. Seven lectures on the law and history of copyright in books. 1899.
Boswell's Life of Johnson. Ed. Hill, G. B. 6 vols. Oxford, 1887.
Copinger, W. A. The law of copyright. 4th edn. 1904.
Curwen, H. A history of booksellers. (1873. ]
Decree of Starre-Chamber, concerning printing, made the eleventh day of
July last past. 1637.
Dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
1557-1640. Ed. McKerrow, R. B. Bibliographical Society. 1910.
Dictionary of the booksellers and printers at work in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, 1641-1667. By Plomer, H. R. Bibliographical Society. 1907.
D’Israeli, I. Calamities and quarrels of authors. New edn. (1881. ]
Grub-Street Journal. 1730-7. (A satire on hackwriters and their works.
The chief contributors were Russell, R. , Martyn, J. , and Pope, Alex. ]
Memoirs of the Society of Grub-Street. 2 vols. 1737. [Selections
from The Grub-Street Journal. ]
History of bookselling in England. Quarterly Review. Vol. clxxiv.
1892.
Knight, C. Shadows of the old booksellers. 1865.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger. Considerations and proposals in order to the regula-
tion of the press. 1663.
Kitchin, G. Sir Roger L'Estrange: a contribution to the history of
the press in the seventeenth century. 1913.
See, also, bibliographies to vol. vii, chap. xv, and vol. ix, chap. I, ante.
,
Macfarlane, J. The paper duties of 1696–1713. The Library, 1900.
Pamphlets and the pamphlet duty of 1712. The Library, 1900.
Marston, E. Sketches of booksellers of other days. 1901.
Sketches of some booksellers of the time of Dr Samuel Johnson. 1902.
Masson, D. The life of John Milton. 6 vols. 1859-80. [For booksellers
and press censorship of the time. ]
Milton, John. Areopagitica; a speech for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing.
1644. Ed. Arber, E. 1868.
Mumby, F. A. The romance of bookselling: a history from the earliest
times to the twentieth century. 1910. [Contains a full bibliography
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Nichols, J. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century. 9 vols. 1812-15.
Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century. 8 vols.
1817-58.
Plomer, H. R. A short history of English printing, 1476–1898. 1900.
The booksellers of London Bridge. The Library, 1903.
The church of St Magnus and the booksellers of London Bridge. The
Library, 1911.
Westminster Hall and its booksellers. The Library, 1905.
Ralph, J. The case of authors by profession or trade, stated. With regard
to booksellers, the stage, and the public. 1758. Another edn, with the
author's name.
1762.
Roberts, W. The earlier history of English bookselling. 1889. [To the
beginning of the 18th century. ]
Shaylor, J. The Fascination of Books, with other papers on books and
bookselling. 1912.
Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations and characters of books and men. 1820.
The Times Printing Number: reprinted from the 40,000th issue of The
Times. 1912.
Timperley, C. H.
Encyclopaedia of literary and typographical anecdote. 1842.
Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers, 1554-1640. Ed.
Arber, E. 5 vols. Privately printed, 1875-94.
Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers;
from 1640–1708. 3 vols. Vol. 1 (1640-1655). Roxburghe Club. 1913.
Watt, R. Bibliotheca Britannica; or a general index to British and foreign
literature. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.
Wheatley, H. B. The dedication of books to patron and friend. 1887.
Prices of books: an inquiry into the changes in the price of books which
have occurred in England at different periods. 1898.
Lawler, J. Book auctions in England in the seventeenth century (1676-1700).
1898.
Pollard, A. W. English book-sales, 1676-1680. Bibliographica, vol. 1, 1895.
A list of the original catalogues of the principal libraries which have been
sold by auction by Mr Samuel Baker (and his successors] from 1744 to
1828. 1828.
Axon, W. E. A. A London circulating library of 1743. The Library, 1900.
Clarke, A. The reputed first circulating subscription library in London.
The Library, 1900.
Barwick, G. F. Humfrey Wanley and the Harleian library. The Library,
1902.
II. PARTICULAR BOOKSELLERS
Cave, Edward. The rise and progress of the Gentleman's Magazine: with
anecdotes of the projector and his early associates. By John Nichols.
1821.
Cruden, Alexander. Life, by Alexander Chalmers. Prefixed to an edn of
the Concordance published in 1824, and frequently rptd in later edns.
Curll, Edmund. The Curliad. A hypercritic upon the Dunciad Variorum.
With a farther key to the new characters. 1792. [An attack upon
Pope, by Curll. ]
A full and true account of a horrid and barbarous revenge by poison on
the body of Mr Edmund Curll, bookseller: with a faithfull copy of his
will and testament. [By Alex. Pope. ] 1716.
Curll Papers: stray notes on the life and publications of E. Curll. By
W. J. Thoms. Privately reprinted from Notes and Queries. 1879.
For a list of Curll's writings see D. of N. B.
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Dodsley. Robert Dodsley, poet, publisher, and playwright. By Straus, R. S.
1910. [With a full bibliography. ]
At "Tully's Head! By Austin Dobson. In Eighteenth Century
Vignettes. 2nd ser. 1894.
See, also, bibliography to vol. ix, chap. vi, p. 484, ante.
Dunton. The life and errors of John Dunton. 1705. New edn (enlarged).
2 vols. 1818.
The Dublin Scuffle: being a challenge sent by John Dunton, citizen of
London, to Patrick Campbell, bookseller in Dublin. Together with the
small skirmishes of bills and advertisements. 1699.
For a list of Dunton's numerous other writings see D. of N. B.
Lackington. Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James
Lackington . . . bookseller. . . . Written by himself. [1791. ] New edn,
enlarged. 1792. Further enlarged. 1794. 13th edn. (1810. ]
The confessions of James Lackington. 1804.
James Lackington. By George Paston. In Little Memoirs of the
Eighteenth Century. 1901.
Murray. A publisher and his friends (The House of Murray, 1768-1843).
By Samuel Smiles. 2 vols. 1891.
Newbery, Francis. An old London bookseller. By Austin Dobson. In
Eighteenth Century Vignettes. 1st ser. 1892.
Newbery, John. A bookseller of the last century, being some account of the
life of John Newbery. By Charles Welsh. 1885.
Payne. The two Paynes (Thomas Payne, bookseller, and Roger Payne,
bookbinder). By Austin Dobson. In Eighteenth Century Vignettes.
2nd ser. 1894.
Richardson. A famous printer: Samuel Richardson. By Thorne, W. B.
The Library, 1901.
See, also, bibliography to vol. x, chap. 1, p. 411, ante.
Rivington. The publishing house of Rivington. By Septimus Rivington.
1894.
Thomason, George. See biographical notice by G. K. Fortescue, prefixed to
the Catalogue of the Thomason collection of pamphlets in the British
Museum. 2 vols. 1908.
III. THE PROVINCES. SCOTLAND. IRELAND
Allnutt, W. H. English provincial presses (to 1750]. Bibliographica. Vol. 11.
1896.
Notes on the introduction of printing-presses into the smaller towns of
England and Wales after 1750 to the end of the eighteenth century.
The Library, 1901.
Bowes, R. A catalogue of books printed at or relating to Cambridge,
1521-1893. With index by Worman, E. J. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1894.
Biographical notes on the (Cambridge] University printers. Cambridge
Antiquarian Soc. Communications. Vol. v. 1886.
Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey. 1847. Cottle
also published the following poems: Malvern Hills, 1798; John the
Baptist, 1801; Alfred, 1801; The Fall of Cambria, 1809; Messiah, 1815.
Cotton, H. A typographical gazetteer. 2 vols. Oxford, 1831-66.
Davies, R. A memoir of the York press. . . in the 16th, 17th, and 18th
centuries, 1868.