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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 131 Phelp (sic) (Mr.), p. 61. SOLD AT T. PHILP'S MARKET STREET, DOCK, [etc.] A CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Printed label, date about 1800. Exeter. Bishop (Phil.), p. 42. Another edition of Blackall's Sermon on Almsgiving, of same date, in 8vo, with some minor variations in the title-page, has this imprint : " Exon : Printed by ^os. Bliss in the Exchange, for Phill. Bishop in the Forestreet MDCCViii." Brice (Thos.), p. 25, &c. — " Brice, Thomas, Printer, North Street."— C/.5.D. Butter (Nathaniel.) Nathaniel Butter was the publisher, in London, of Bishop Jos. Hall's " The Olde Religion " (third edition, 1630). Possibly Thomas Butter, Bookseller in St. Martin's Lane temp. Q. Anne (Dredge, p. 44), may have been his descendant. Dyer (Gilbert), p. iii. — Dyer, Gilbert, Circulating Library, High Street— t/.B.D. at the CIRCULATIXG LIBRARY IN the College, Exeter, KEPT BY G. DYER (which is daily increasing, and now contains between Two and Three Thousand volumes of History, Voyages, Travels, Plays, Novels, &c., by the best Authors), may constantly be had all the new Books worthy of general Perusal, also the Value of any Parcel or Library containing Books which may be wanted for compleating the said Circulating Library. N.B. — Constant attendance given.— Terms of Subscrip- tion I2S, per Year, or 4s. per Quarter ; and no Expence nor Attention spared to render the Library agreeable to every Reader. Rectangirlar printed label within fancy border, date about 1790. Sold by E. JEANES, Successor to Mr. W. Strong, LATE MR. G. DYER, Bookseller and Bookbinder. Opposite the Guildhall, EXETER. Small rectangular engraved label, about 1 in. xfin., date about 1820.