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HISTORy OF PRINTING.
1706, Feb. 16, Died, Edwabd Jones, printer of the London Gazette, whom Dunton, a short time before Mr. Jones's death, thus characterised : " His soul is enriched with many virtues ; but the most orient of all are, his large charity, his remarkable justice in trade, and great kindness to his aged mother. He has got a good estate by authority ; and is deservedly famous for print- ing the True Neun, and publishing the London Gazette:'
On a small flat stone adjoining the nest end of Hampstead church, the following inscription still remains :
M.S.
EbOARDUS JONSS,
inter TypogTiq>ho8 primos quondam prinuuius,
in porentefl plentiMimtui,
Id unlcos nonqoam non benevolua,
copjogi opdsnie lUioqae charlsslmo indol^ntiuimas,
■d pedes jBcet
Hoc quleqoale monnmentmn Kvlternte
pletatU testimonium erga ipsum matremqne
ejnsjuxte Jacentem.
tM. J. C. {K-J.F.
Ob. IS I*b. I70«, Bt. xui.« poroere
At the foot of the above, another stone is thus inscribed:
Here lies the body of Mrs. Johanna Gumw,
wtio died the 18th of February, lOgO,
aged 78.
In memory ol whom this stone is erected by her son,
Edward Jonvs, pzinter in the Savoy.
Immediately on his decease, was published the Mercury Hawkert in Mourning; an elegy on the much-lamented death of Edward Jones, the famous Gazette printer, of the Savoy ".f who departed this life at his house, at Kensington, on Saturday the 16th day of February, 1706, in the 64th year of his age ; to which was subjoined the following epitaph :
Here lies a printer, Cunons in his Ume, Whose life by lingering alclmeas did incline j He liv'd in credit, and in peace he died. And often bad the chance of fortune tried { Whose smiles by various methods did promote Him to the favour of the senate's vote : And so became, by national consent. The only printer for the pailiament : Thus by degrees, so prasp'rons was his fkte, B« left bis hein a very good estate.
1706. It is the opinion of Schnurrer, express- ed in his Bibliotheca Arabica, that the Arabic printing-office of the monastery of Snagof, (see page 686, ante,) was removed to the city of ' Aleppo in this year, and opened by the publica- tion of an Arabic Pialter, under the direction of Athanasius the Antiochene patriarch of the Greek Melchites. Other books followed in 1707, 1708, some Homilies of Athanariut in 1711, and a se- cond edition of the Psalnu in 1736.
- A dUTerence occurs between the epittqih and the
elegy ; bnt the former is no donlit correct.
t The Savoy, in London, was formerly a magnificent palace, erected in the reign of Heory III. : it was subse- quently converted by Henry VII. into a hospital, wliiph was suppressed by queen Elizabeth, and its remains con- verted Into private lodgings, barraclis, &c., &c. Some printing-presses were worlced within its precincts during the time of the commonwealth ; and so late as 1743 H. Lintot printed law boolis here.— i>r. Cotton.
1706. A printing press was erected at Skaia, an ancient town of the south of Sweden, by bishop Jasper Suedbergius ; and Andreas KieO- bergius, from Upsal, was the first printer. This press having been consumed in the terrible fire which laid the city in ruins, on the 23rd of August, 1719, its owner detained a royal brief for collecting money towards its restoration.
1706, April 20. Jacob Tonson applies to Pope fur the honour of printing his Ptutormit, from Gray's Inn gate.
1 706, ^t«/. 26. jDie<i,THOM AS Benn£t,w1io was a first-rate bookseller in St. Paul's churchyard, particularly noticed by the established clergr of that period, and by the leading men at Ouord, as appears by the controversy of Mr. Boyle with Dr. JSentley. He was, in consequence, patnm- ized by Dr. Atterbury,* who frequently mentions him in his Epitloiary Correspondence. John Dunton says, " Mr. Thomas Bennet, a man very neat in his dress, very much devoted to the church, has a considerable trade in Oxford, and prints for Doctor South, and the most eminent Con- formists. I was partner with him in Lecrose's Works of the Learned; and I must say he acted like a man of conscience and honesty." The following epitaph is in St. Faith's church :
" Here lyeth the body of Mr. Thomas Bennet, dUren and stationer of London, who married Mis. KlirabeHi Whltewrong, eldest daughter of James Whltewrong. of Rothavastoid, in the county of Hertford, esq. t by wlKim he had one son and two daughters; and deputed this life August the SStb, in the year of our Lord I7(K>, and in the forty-second year of his age."
1706, Jan. 26. The Poetical Courant. No. 1.
1706, Feb. 18. The London Gazette. This was the last number printed by Edward Jones; the next was printed by his widow, M. Janet. No. 4202.
1706, Sept.^. The Rehearsal Rehearsed ; in a Dialogue between Bayes and Johnson. No. 1.
1706. The Nontnch Postman, containing re- markable occurrences, foreign and domestic ; printed by S. Sheffield, for T. Goddard, hook- seller, Norwich. This was a small 4to foolscap, for which the regular charge was a penny — but " a halfpenny not refused."
1706. The Country GentlemanU Couranf; « Universal Intelligence ; being an exact Register of the most material News, both FoTeign and Domesticl, occurring from Saturday Oct. 5 to Saturday Oct. 12, 1706. To which is added, an Expositor, or Geographical Description of the most important Places mentioned in each Aitide of News. Printed for J. Morphew. This paper the proprietors are pleased to give away on mis day only, that the design may be the better known, and the sale encouraged as it deserves. And as promotion of trade is a matter which ought to be encouraged, advertisements will be taken in by the publisher hereof, at 2d. per line. No. 1.
- Bishop Atterbury preached his funeral
has given him a high character. See Nichols's Liiermig Aneeiola, vol. 3, p. 7<>9.
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