ticularly admired, and had a most extensive sale. Finding herself, however, from the impaired state of her health, which suffered from pulmonary attacks, unable to sustain the exertions required in conducting so extensive a concern, she resolved, after the purchase of the foundry, to take as an active partner, Nathaniel Catherwood[1], who by his energy and knowledge of business fully equalled her expectations. This connection gave a new impetus to the improvements of the foundry, which did not cease during the lives of the partners, and their exertions were duly appreciated and encouraged by the printers. In 1808 the character of the foundry may be considered as completely retrieved, but the proprietors did not long live to enjoy their well-merited success. In the spring of 1808 Mrs. Caslon went to reside at Bristol hotwells, for the benefit of the air, where death put a period to her long and extreme suffering. She was buried in the cathedral of Bristol.
Mr. Henry Caslon, son of the above lady, continued the foundry, and upheld it both in the eminence of its character and in its original name. Until 1821 he was in partnership with John James Catherwood, brother to Nathaniel, the former partner in the house. From 1821 to 1822 the business was carried on by Mr. Caslon alone, when he admitted into partnership Mr. Martin William Livermore.
1809. Died, Charles Hering, a bookbinder, of London; and, who after the death of Roger Payne, was considered the head of the craft.—He was an extremely skilful binder, and a remarkably industrious man. His bindings exhibit a strength and squareness, with a good style of finish, which renders his work of much value, and establishes the reputation accorded to him. His faults were a too great fondness for double headbands, and the use of brown paper linings, with a little inclination to the German taste. Possessing the reputation he did, the principal libraries of this country contain many of his bindings. Mr. J. Hering, his brother, succeeded to the business, and was one of the first binders that revived stamped calf binding.
1809, April 17. Died, George Rogers, a respectable bookseller at Plymouth, Devonshire.
1809, May 7. George Beaumont, printer of the British Guardian, Sunday newspaper, was sentenced, in the court of king's bench, London, to two years' imprisonment in Newgate, to pay a fine of £50, and at the expiration of his imprisonment, to give security to the amount of £500 for his good behaviour, for a letter to his majesty, Geo. III. inserted in that paper, signed Tiberius Gracchus.
1809, May 26. The printing-office of Mr. Smeaton, in St. Martin's-Lane, Charing-cross, London, destroyed by fire; and, unfortunate to relate, both Mr. Smeaton and his wife perished in the flames.
1809, June 3. Died, J. P. De la Grange, a French bookseller in Greek-street, Soho, London, aged seventy-one years.
1809, June 29. The earl of Leicester obtained a verdict of £1000 against the printer of the Morning Herald.
1809, Aug. Died, Samuel Harward, bookseller, at Charlton, Gloucestershire. He was a man of uncommon activity and exertion, and in the early part of his life kept no fewer than five different shops. He left behind him very considerable property, and a large and valuable collection of books.
1609, Aug. 19. Died, Elizabeth Baldwin, widow of Richard Baldwin, bookseller;[2] she bequeathed by her will, £250 stock three per cents. the dividends to be paid out and expended in the purchase of five great coats, to be annually given to five poor liverymen or freemen of the company of stationers, in the first week in December, forever.
1809, Aug. 28. Died, Henry Parker, sometime an eminent stationer and printseller, in Cornhill, and many years deputy of that ward. In 1774, he quitted business, on purchasing the important office of clerk of the chamber at guildhall, which he held till within a few months of his death; when, agreeably to the terms of his purchase, he alienated the office to Mr. James Boudon, his principal assistant. Mr. Parker was master of the stationers' company in 1801; where, as in every other department of life, his general knowledge of city business, and the remarkable placidity of his manners, very much endeared him to a circle of sincere friends. He died at Stoke Newington, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. His only son, John Henry Parker, was Gresham professor of divinity, and curate of Wanstead, in Essex.
1809, Oct. 5. Died, James Bate, many years an eminent stationer in Cornhill, and one of the common-council for that ward. He was master of the stationers' company in 1799; and died at Chiswick. His father was the rev. James Bate, rector of St. Paul's, Deptford, who died in 1775.
1809, Oct. 30. Died, William Fenner, bookseller, Paternoster-row, London, in the eighty-third year of his age, and father of the stationers' company. He was the son of William Fenner, printer, of Lombard-street, who was one of the partners with Ged, in his attempt at stereotype printing; after his death, about 1735, his widow was remarried to Mr. James Waugh, an apothecary, but continued to carry on the business of a printer till her death. The son was for some time her assistant and partner; and afterwards, for a short period, followed the profession of a bookseller in Paternoster-row; but, marrying early, and satisfied with a very moderate competence, he retired from the bustle of trade, in the prime of life; and, for more than forty years, prolonged a life, devoted to acts of kindness and philanthropy. He was master of the stationers' company in 1786, and to whom, in 1777, he
