its growth, and contributed very materially to the success of this enterprising and accomplished publisher. To the classical reader we need only mention the name of A. J. Valpy, whose edition of the Variorum Classics, extended to 161 vols., 8vo., to prove his cultivated taste and liberality of enterprise. M'Cray has translated and published some beautiful Lyrics from the German; William Clarke, originally a bookseller, gave to the antiquary an exceedingly curious and interesting account of libraries, under the name of Repertorium Bibliographicum; and Rodd was the translator of several volumes from the Spanish. One of the best bibliographers was R. H. Evans, the auctioneer and bookseller of Pall-Mall; his namesake, J. Evans, acted as editor in the instance of Aikin's Essays; Dolby, bookseller, gave to the public a work of ingenuity and labor, The Shakspearian Dictionary; and Christie, the auctioneer, has also produced four abstruse works, on the taste and literature of the ancient Greeks, which he compiled during the intervals of his business occupation; Griffith, the bookseller, compiled a catalogue of ancient and modern poetry, entitled Bibliographia Anglo-Poetica; and Dr. Koller and Mr. Bach were both translators and German critics, as well as booksellers. Another conspicuous member of the class was Cochrane, who was for some time an eminent bookseller, and the able and discriminating editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review, for seven years. He was also selected by the trustees to draw up the catalogue of Sir Walter Scott's choice and valuable library at Abbottsford-a most delightful labor of love; and on the formation of the London Library, was, among a host of competitors, unanimously elected to the offices of librarian and secretary.

We might also mention Stewart, the eminent linguist, and

ray, Bentley, Saunders & Otley, Hatchard, Nisbett, Bohn, Moxon, and although now deceased, we should not omit the well-known publisher of the Aldine edition of the Poets-Pickering. Many others might be named, among them Tegg, Routledge, Bogue, Chapman & Hall, Weale, &c.

known as the skillful compiler of the celebrated catalogue of Miss Currer's library, which he embellished by drawings from his own pencil. If any one is sceptical enough, after what has been adduced to the contrary, to assert that the bookselling and printing business has been wanting in literary distinction, we pity his want of candor, while we further refer him to such names as the following: Arrowsmith, the celebrated map-publisher, and author of Ancient and Modern Geography, as well as several elementary works in geography, some of which, with the former, were used as text-books at Oxford, Cambridge, and Eton; J. Wilson, editor of the Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany, Shakspeariana, &c.; Atkinson, of Glasgow, possessed, perhaps, as great an acquaintance with Medical Bibliography as any person of his times, as his curious and unique work on that subject proves. One of the leading medical journals of Europe characterized it as " one of the most remarkable books ever seenuniting the German research of a Plouquet with the ravings. of a Rabelais, the humor of Sterne with the satire of Democritus, the learning of Burton with the wit of Pindar." It is to be regretted the ingenious author did not live to complete the whole design.

Ainsworth, the popular historical novelist, was originally a bookseller with John Ebers, of Bond Street, to whom he afterwards became related by marriage.

Godwin (author of Caleb Williams, St. Leon, &c.), was once a bookseller in Skinner Street; Rodd, who kept an extensive establishment for the sale of old books, translated the Spanish Ballads. His shop was the resort of confirmed biblio

maniacs.

Nor should the name of John Murray-the friend and publisher of Byron-be omitted in this place. It is not our province to remark on the distinguished eminence of this gentleman as a publisher, although in this respect he may unquestionably be entitled to take the highest rank; but his well

known literary abilities and severe critical taste, equally render him conspicuous, as evinced in the immense collection of valuable works which have issued from his establishment. The excellent series of Hand-Books, are in part, productions of his son, the present publisher of that name.

The name of Talboys, of Oxford, will be remembered by his admirable translation of Adelung's Historical Sketch of Sanscrit Literature, to which he appended copious bibliographical notices. He was, moreover, the translator of the very erudite volumes of Professor Heeren, of which he is also the publisher; his Bibliotheca Classica and Theologica, likewise deserve honorable mention for their completeness and excellent scientific arrangement.

Hansard, the printer, who wrote Typographia, and another similar work, and who has been also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, also was of the fraternity; as well as West, the author of Fifty Years' Recollections of a Bookseller. Goodhugh, author of the Library Manual; Haas, who translated Dr. Krummacher's Elisha, and Zschökke's History of Switzerland.

John Russell Smith has rendered himself distinguished by his industry, as well as literary taste. His work on the Bibliography of Kent, Bibliotheca Cantiana, as well as his Bibliographical List of all Works which have been published towards illustrating the Provincial Dialects of England, evince both his untiring antiquarian research and literary zeal. We come next to a name that has become almost a synonym with antiquarian anecdote-William Hone, the sale of whose Every Day Book and Year Book (who has not read them?), during the first year of their publication, produced £500. He was originally a bookseller-his collected works would probably fill ten or twelve octavos. His political satires had a prodigious sale, upwards of 70,000 copies being disposed of in a short time. His infidel publications he lived to repudiate, and publicly to recant, in to recant, in a work

entitled his Early Life and Conversion. Henry G. Bohn deserves to be classed among our list; his catalogue, containing a critical description of 300,000 volumes, in all the languages dear to literature, may be ranked among the most remarkable productions of the press of any nation. It contains 2,106 pages, and cost its compiler two thousand guineas and an almost incredible amount of labor. The Chambers, of Edinburgh, editors of the able and valuable works that bear their name, present another noble instance of genius rising superior to all opposing circumstances. They were originally, as intimated, of humble origin-now they are among the largest publishers of their age. Their essays are among the choicest of our periodical literature. There is still another name we cannot, in justice, omit to notice: we allude to that of Timperley, whose Encyclopædia of Literary Anecdote discovers curious labor and research. Here, then, we ought to pause in our enumeration of literary booksellers and printers; although the catalogue might be extended to a much greater length. There are three other names, however, we must not omit, in conclusion.

Charles Knight, the well-known editor of the Pictorial Shakespeare, of London Illustrated, and other excellent works; Thomas Miller, once the basket-maker, since poet, novelist, and essayist; and William Howitt, whose voluminous writings are too well known to require recital— form a triple coronal in bibliography; and the lustre they shed upon the brotherhood of booksellers to which they originally belonged, may well atone for the obliquities, discrepancies, and obtuseness, with which the tongue of scandal has sought to darken the fair escutcheon of its fame.

The first book ever printed in the New World was in the city of Mexico. It was printed in the Spanish language, in the year 1544, and was entitled Doctrina Christiana per eo los

Indos. The first publications made in English, in America, were the Freeman's Oath, an Almanac for 1639, nearly a hundred years after the work published in Mexico. In 1640 was published the first book, entitled the Bay Psalm Book. It was reprinted in England, where it passed through no less than eighteen editions; the last being issued in 1754. It was no less popular in Scotland, twenty-two editions of it having been published there. Altogether, it is estimated it reached to seventy editions abroad.

We might mention, with no slight honor, the name of John Foster, a man of great literary attainments, a graduate at Harvard University, and, himself an author. At a later date Matthew Carey, and his son and successor, Henry Carey, both of whom have recorded their names in the literary annals of their country, not to omit the name of an author-bookseller, Peter Parley (Goodrich), whose works are alike appreciated in both hemispheres.

Isaiah Thomas has written and published a History of Printing, a work of considerable reputation; Drake, the antiquarian bookseller of Boston, besides being a member of several learned societies, was author of the Book of the Indians,

The first Printing-press set up in America, was "worked " at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1639.

The Rev. Jesse Glover procured this press, by "contributions of friends of learning and religion," in Amsterdam and in England, but died on his passage to the New World.

Stephen Day was the first printer. In honor of his pioneer position, Government gave him a grant of three hundred acres of land. Among other of his early publications were the New Testament, and Baxter's Call, translated into the Indian language, by Elliot, the great Missionary, and printed at great cost. The title might be recommended, on account of its obscurity and high-sounding character, to some of the writers of books now-a-days. It