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Exchracts of a Letter from Dr Johnson to the ker D Wetherell Matter of Um versity College beford, containing a full & clear statement of the hoo. fits of the London Booksellers, not exorbitant as D. Johnson does in hun allow them here more than they u sually demand. See Morwells" "Lif of S. Johnson LL. D. Vol. 11. p. 13.4. 1791 After it is printed a book, book pasion [i.e. must or may pass through thre hands before it comes to thon of the reader, & each hand must retain a profit as a motive for transmitting. to the next. I The Doctor's letter is on the enbject of the Booke printed at the Clarendon prep. I.

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costs the last buyer 20 charge MrCadell with something less than 14. We must set the copies at 140 thelling, each, & superadd what's called the Quarterly book, or for every 100 books so charg we must deliver 104. The profits thed stand thus. Mr Cadell whoruns no hazard gives nocredit, will be paid for Warthong. Woom & altendance by a shilling proftern each book, whis chance of y quarterly book. MrDillybuys the book for 15 shillings do will expect the quarterly for his coun book for

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buying at 16'86 ? rable time, gains but 3'46" & if he trust, a year not much more than 2'46, otherwise than ashe may take as long credit as he gives with less profit them & more he cannot have, the country booksetter we, for his receipts are small, w his debt, sometimes bad."

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FUGITIVE PIECES.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED:

LONDON,

Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel-Street, Covent-
Garden, Bookfeller to the Royal Academy.

MDCCLXXIV.

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