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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1726, March 11. The Country Gentleman.
1726, April 6. The Censor; or, Miistennaster- general of all the newspapers printed in Great Britain and Ireland, No. 2.
1726, Dec. 5. The Country Journal; or the Craftiman, by Caleb Danvers, of Gniy's Inn, esq., No. 1, pritned by Ricbabd Francklin. Nicholas Amhurst was, for sereral years, the conductor of this political paper. It was written to oppose the administration of sir Robert Wal- pole, and he was assisted in the attack by very powerful coadjutors — Bolingbroke and Pulte- ney. Such was the popularity of these essays, and such the indignation of the country against the measures of Walpole, that ten or twelve thousand copies were frequently sold in a day. A complete set of the Craftsman forms fourteen volumes, 12mo.
1726. 77(0 London Journal, The Journal was a species of newspaper, including letters and essays on every topic, but too frequently on con- troversial subjects. It was a great deterioration of the admirable plan of Steele and Addison, and, for a time, the town was deluged with these motley productions. The invention of Weekly Journals was, observes Aaron Hill, owing to the taste which the town began to entertain from die writings of the Taller, Spectator, and others. The politics of the London Journal were in favour of government.
1726. Essays on the Vices and Follies of the Times. This volume is the production of Am- hurst, the author of Terree tilius, and consists of" select papers formerly published in Pasquin and the London Journal.
1726. London Daily Post, and General Ad- vertiser. In 1743 it was altered to the General Advertiser; and in 1762, took the name of the Public Advertiser. It was commenced by Henry Woodfall.
1726. 7%e Frankische Acta Erudita et Cu- riosa, a journal of French literature, was pub- lished at Nuremberg, from 1726 till 1732.
1727, Feb. 6. John Gay assigned to Jacob Tonson and John Watts, fur the sum of ninety guineas, the copyright of fifty fables, and the Beggar's Opera. For some curious particulars concerning the Beggar's Opera, see Genlleynan's Magazine, for March 1822.
1727, March. Edward Cave, printer, taken into custody of the Serjeant at arms, for writing news letters, containing an account of the pro- ceedings of the house of commons.
1727. The tirst press set up at Burlington, the capital city of New Jersey, in North America, was by Samuel Keimer, from Philadelphia, for the purpose of printing the New Jersey money bills. Benjamin Franklin accompanied his master, and while there oonstructea a copper- plate printing press, the first that had been seen in the country, and he also had to engrave vari- ous ornaments and vignettes for the bills. The press was removed to Philadelphia in about three months. In 1765, Mr. Parker, who was established as a printer at Woodbridjge, removed his apparatus to Burlington, solely for the pur-
pose of printing Smith's Histonf of New Jeneg, an octavo of 570 pages ; which having finidied, he forthwith repaired to his old quarters. The first who permanently set up a press at the place, was Isaac Collins, a printer from Philadel^iia.
1727. i7t«2, Richard Baldwvn, a bookseDei, of St Paul's Churcfa-yaid, and who was probably related to R. Baldwyn,* who in 1690 lived at ^ Oxford Arms, in Warwick-lane. Robert Bald- wyn, the first who settled in Patemoster.4t>w at a bookseller, was his nephew, and in the titles page of a work publishea in 1749, the name is put "R. Baldwyn, jun." The sign of the house, whilst signs were in use, was the Rose. The house of Baldwin, a name long known in Patemoster-row, originated with the above, and still continues famous in the trade.
1727. The Marquess db Lassat erected a printing press at his country seat, at Lossay, a small town of France, in the department of the Mayenne, one book from which is noticed by Peignot Probably it produced little beades this.
1727, March 27. Died, Sir Isaac Newtoh, the most eminent philosopher which this, or perhaps any other country ever produced. He outshone all that went before him, and all that have come after him. It was the fortune of Newton to erect upon the basis of geometry, a new system of philosophy, by which the opera- tions of nature were for the first time properly elucidated ; the motions of the vast orbs com- posing the solar system being shown by him to depend upon rules that were equally applif»ble to the smallest particles of matter. He was born at Woolstrope, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas- day, in 1642. Losing his father in his cbild- hood, the care of him devolved on his mother, who gave him an excellent education, thongh she married a second time. In 1654 he was sent to Grantham school, and at the age of eighteen removed W) Trinity college, Cambridge. Aiier going through Euclid's Elements, he proceeded to the study of Descartes's geometry, with Ought- red's Claris, and Kepler's Optics, in all of which he made marginal notes as he went alon^. It was in this early course that he invented the
- " Richard Baldwin.— Be inlnted a great deal, bat get
as litUc by it as John Dnnton. He boond for me uid others when be lived in the Old Bailey ; bnt removing to Warwick-lane, Ilia fame for publishing iq>read ao fiut, ke grew too big to handle his iiiia</ looU. Mr. Baldwin bar- ug got acquaintance with persons of qnality, he waa now for taking a shop in Fleet-street i bat Dick soaiing oat ot his element, had the honoor of being a bookseller a few months. However, to do Mr. Baldwin Justice, his iadi- nations were to oblige all mem and only to neglect Us. self. He was a man of a generous temper, and wmU take a cheering glass to oblige a customer. {OspuraeaDd his heart were open to all men that he thooglit were honest; and his conversation was very dlverang. Be was a true lover of King William ; and after he came oa the livery, always voted on the ri^t side. His wife, Mn. Ann Baldwin, in a literal sense, was an kelp-tmat, and eased him of all his publMing vorki and since die has been a widow, might vie wits all the women In Europe for accuracy and justice in keeping accounts ; and the same I hear of her beautiful daughter, Mrs. Mary Baldwia. of whom her father was very fond. (le waa, as it were, flattered into his grave by a lonf consumptioa ; ai>d now lies buried in Wickham parish. Us native place.— .~
