PORTRAITS, &c. CHAPTER VIII. EMINENT PUBLISHERS. MR. JOHN MURRAY-MR. THOMAS TEGG. THE name of MR. JOHN MURRAY, of Albermarle Street, has an undoubted right to stand the first in any article or chapter referring to the Publishers of London. He is the prince of aristocratic bibliopoles, and has maintained his sovereignty in that character for upwards of a quarter of a century. Mr. Murray is a publisher by birth as well as by choice. I do not mean to say anything so foolish, as that he was born a full-fledged bibliopole: all I wish my readers to understand is, that his father carried on the business of a bookseller and publisher, before the subject of VOL. II. B |