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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1627, S«pt. The Betreifeetive Renew and Histortcal mnd Antiquarian Magazine, (new series) published every alternate month.
1827, Dec. 8. The London Medical GazetU, No. 1. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co.
1827. TheEdinbmyh New PhilosophicalJour- nal, conducted ky Robert Jameson, F. R.S., regnis professor of natnial history and keeper of tbe musemn at Edinburgh, lecturer in miner- alogy, and president of the Weraerian society.
1827. The Christian Examiner and Church of IreUuid Magazine. Dublin: W. Curry, jun.
1827. The Foreign Reviev and Continental Mitcellany, No. 1. 6s. London, 8vo.
1827. The Hobarl Town Courier, edited by James Ross, LL.D. Dr. Ross died at Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, in August, 1832.
182iB, Jan 3. Died, John Hdbst, many years a booliselleT at Wakefield.
1828, Jan. 7. Died, James Scatcbehd, book- seller, Ave Maria-lane, London, aged seventy- three years. Mr. Scatcherd was a native of Yo^nire, and senred his apprenticeship to a bookseller in the city of York. At the expiration of his time he went to London, and lived with Mr. John Walter, a well known bookseller at Cbaring-cross ; and, after living in that gentle- nan's service for several years, he succeeded (in conjunction with Mr. Whitaker) to the business of Mr. Edward Johnson, then the father of the trade. Mr. Whitaker dying a few years afler- wards, Mr. Scatcherd entered into partnership with Mr. Letterman, a maa of upright conduct and indefatigable industry, whom also he sur- vived. A great part of his success in trade may be attributed to his engagement with Mr. John Reeve,* to print his bibles and common prayer books. Mr. Scatcherd was a member of the common council for the ward of Farringdon within for several years. His fortune, which was considerable, he left, with the exception of a few legacies, to his widow.
1828. Jan. In the court of exchequer, judg- ment was pronounced on an important literary question. The British museum v, Payne and Foss, booksellers and publishers. The trustees of the British museum claimed one copy of a number of a splended publication entitled Flora Cfneca, got up entirely by subscription, and no more copies were printed than those subscribed for. The claim was resisted on the ground that a publication for private circulation did not come under the operation of the act giving a copy of every work to the library of that national estab- lishment. The court pronounced unanimouslv against the claims of the trustees, on the grounil o? its being only a portion of the work, and not a complete volume.
1828, Feb. 15. Died,JosEPB Cleave, printer, bookseller, and publisher, of Manchester, aged fifty-fire years. His zealous and active exertions
- Jobn Reeve, foonder of the association for protectiDK
Ubertr and jvoperty against republicans and lerellera, (fonned in London, Nov. so, I7ts,) was born Nov. 30, 17S3, anddiedAng. S9, 1829. See page 811, an<«.
in promoting the interests of Sunday sdM^nii ever endear his memory in lasting remembiaK. Such was the uprightness of all his dealiofit iloi the trading world will long regret his loo. JU a master he was afi'able,kind, and Kberal;ud e a friend he was warm-hearted and faitlifal. Mi. Gkave was a native of Tabley, in Cheshiic,itl left a fiunily of two sons and four danfthm Robert, the eldest son, a printer, died Angna %, 1830, and the business is now carried n hj Joseph Gleave, the youngest son.
1828, Feb. 28. Among the nnfortunate sOet- era who lost their lives by the iialling in of dv Brunswick theatre, Welldose-square, LondoB. on this day, the printing profession had to lament the loss of J. D. Mauhicb, an ennat printer, of Fenchurch-street, London, wboca the principal proprietor of the estabHthmem, and John Etani), formerly a primer at Briikil, and author of the Chronoloffical OutUmet tj it Hittory of Bristol. He was well know* I* ■ great portion of the inhabitants of that city,ti4 there are not a few who can testify to the ac6n kindness which he constantly manifested, «ta- ever any efforts of his could help to mitigate te calamities of others. Mr. Evans had, at diflat- ent periods of his life, been concerned in edit- ing more than one newspaper in Bristol, ind had recentiy left it for the purpose of enterinf into some engagement in the printing bnsines iQ London, with Mr. Maurice. Mr. £vans vs in his fidy-fifth year. He became a widemt only a few weeks before his death, and left behind him three orphan children.
1828, ilfarcASI. The Maitland CM «v instituted upon this day, by a few gentlemeo (rf Glasgow, for the purposes very similar to th<i« of the Bannatvne club of Edinburgh ; and although this club is the last formed of these devoted to literary objects, it bids fair, by the number and importance of its publications, to rival either of the predecessors. The noB- bcr of members was originally limited to fifty, but now contains seventy names, of gentlemen of literary acquirements.
1828. It appears from the researches of M. Adrian Balbi, that upwards of three thonsaad one hundred and sixty-eight periodicals are pub- lished in the world. Of these two thousand one hundred and forty two are published in Eurt^, nine hundred and seventy-eight In America, twenty-seven in Asia, twelve in Africa, and nine in Oceana. The United States of America, with a population of eleven millions, has eight huttdrea journals, whilst the British monarchy, with a population of one hundred and forty-two millions, has no more than five hundred and eighty-eight periodicals. The commercial value olliterary works published in Great Britain, during the year 1828, amounted to £334,460, exclusive of newspapers, reviews, and magazines.
1828. The total cost of printing the fac-simile of that ancient codex of the bible, called the Alexandrian Manuscripts, including the varioos sums paid to the printer, engraver, editor, tttinscnber, and bookbinder, was £9,286.
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