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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
We §ball close the history of these remark- able but unfortunate men in a few words. After the death of the younger brother, it was deter- mined to expose the works belonging to the academy to public sale. For this purpose Robert, accompanied by a confidential worlanan, went to London about the month of April, 1776. Contrary to the advice of Mr. Christie,* and at a period when the market was glutted by yearly importations of pictures from Paris, his collec- tion was sold off, — and as the reader may have anticipated, greatly under their supposed value. The catalogue forms three volumes, and the re- sult of the sale was, that after all expenses were defrayed, the balance in his favour amounted to the very enormout sum of fifteen ihiUmgt ! ! ! Irritated at the &ilure of this his last hope, and with a constitution exhausted by calamities, he left London and reached Edinburgh on his way homeward. On the morning on which he in- tended setting out for Glasgow, be expired, almost instantaneously, in his 69th year.
1770, Dee. 17. JohnMiller, John Wilkie, Henby Randall, and Henry Baldwin, four printers of newspapers, found guilty of printing a letter from the constitutional society, signed by Mr. Home (Tooke), respecting the payment of the sum of £100 to Dr. FranUin. On the 1st of Feb. 1777, three of them received judgment, when they were fined £100 each, and ordered to be discharged.
1776. 7%e Holy BiUe, 24mo. printed by J. W. Pasham, in Blackfriars.f This is a very beautiful pocket edition, in imitation of Field's, with notes by the rev. Mr. Romaine,} which might becutoff.'aa artifice to evade the patent enioyed by the king's printer. It was printed in a house taken for the purpose, on Fincnley com- mon. John William Pasham was originally of Buiy St. Edmund's, where he published a news-
5ttper under the title of the Bury Flying Weekly otoTud. He died December 16, 1783. 1776, May. The Biographical Magazine. 1776, May. The Bath and Brittol Magazine.
1776. The Farmen' Magazine.
1777, April 7. Died, Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, ban. a merchant of eminence in the city of London, univerally respected for his many puDlic and private virtues. He became a livery- man of the stationers' company in the year 1723.
• James Christie was many years well knowu and justly celebrated as an aactlonecr, and the successful disposer of property of every kind, whether by public sale or private contract. With an easy and gentleman-like flow of elo- quence, he possessed, in a great degree, the power of per- ■oasiOD, and even tempered his public address by a gentle refinement of manners. He died in Pall Mall, after a long and lingering illness, Nov. s, 1 803, aged 73, and was buried on the 14th, in St. James's burial ground.
t A list of various editions of the bible and parts thereof, in English, from the year 1526 to 177O. A manuscript list of English bibles, copied fk-om one compiled by the late Joseph Amea, presented to the Lambeth library by Dr. QMTord, has tarnished part of this publication ; late dis- coveries of several learned gentlemen has snpplied the rest. Compiled by Dr. Dtincarel. London, evo. pp. 73.
t Rev. William Romaine was born at Hartlepool, in 1714, and died in London, Jaly is, i;03. He was an < "Wient and very learned divine, and published many >hi>: theological works.
In 1749and 17S0he was master of the eampasy, and in the latter year sheriff of London. In 1764, he had the honour of being elected lord mayor. In 1774, he gave £70 as a present to the poor of the stationers' company, and in 1775, £50 more. In 1776, he gave £1 00, half to tho poor, and half to purchase a piece of plate with ms arms on it, witn which a handsome eperene was purchased. In 1777 he added a legacy 0? £50. For a bio- graphical notice of this worthy individual and his family, see Nichob's lAUrury Anecdote/, vd. iii. p. 406-11.
1777, May 12. The court of king's bench de- termine that new music was on the same footing as literary proper^, with respect to copyright
1777. Print sellers' property secured.
1777, June 4. Diea, Kicharo Balvwin, a bookseller in St Paul's chnrch-yaid, London, aged eighty-ox years. Mr. Baldwin had kmf retired firom business, and died at BimringhaB. His son, Richard Bafdwin, junior, died oe&re him, in January, 1770. See page 636, anlr, for Dunton's* character of Richud Baldwin.
1777. Fitayt, Moral and Literary. "Rat essays, the well-known production of the rev.
- Dnnton characterises the following bookadlen .-—
CHaMToraxa Hnssrv.— He is a domtlcbt hntintasi, and has alwayt a laige stock cf books that sic nry scarce. Helsamanof moderation, and my good fM«Dl His residence was In LitUe Britain.
Mr. Hsaaica. — Be is a tall handsome man, deals i^A with the lawyers, and has the good Inck to be upiiufe neighbour to Mr. Sare. He neither neg:lects the baiteai of life, nor pursues it too dose ; and has ererjr hatfi rood word. He is well skilled in the doctrine oftte Christian faith, and can discourse handsomely npoa Sa most dUBcnlt article In religion. His attendance « church is devout and constant , yet his zeal haanoUilafff
Ehrenzy and passion (which is too common in this age) t e manages with prudence and decsicy in the mUst a religrioos worship, and always keeps within the booBdi t religion and reason.
Hr. Halskt. — He is one of a good judgment, and koovi how to bid for a saleable copy, or bad never psinted tie Athenian Spf. He is now in the bloom and beauty at bii yonth, and has great ingenuity and knowledge at tta friendship of others. He is a constant shopkeeper, and tt close application to business does render him the grosrisf hopes of his father's family.
Mr. HAaatsoN, in Chaincery-lane. — He is a maa ftw fhjm faction, noise, and anger, not so weak as to gift such an advantage as any must have who contends wltt one that is stark blind — as how much better is he thitii passionate. He is a diligent man in his abaPf a Ufid neighbour, and a religious master^teachlng his aetiwt better by his own example than all the tutors in bA universities. — This is also the character of G. CoirrSM, in Little Britain.
Mr. HoaN.— He printed fbr Dr. Scot, and had a ri«lll te several excellent co|des. When I traded with him, I (V> found him a very ingeninns, honest, reserved persni and that is all I shall say of him.
Mr. HuBBALD, in Duck-lane.— He has been nnfbrtBBria and so 1 think is every body one time or other. If we ift his carriage to his rich uncle, we shall find how his cooxifS and wisdom carried him with an unwearied course throagk hemispheres of prosperity and adversity, compatastaig. s* I may say, the whole globe of both fortunes — or that if vt look upon Frank Hubbald, we may all learn that no cn# is too heavy for a Christian resolution, nor any dxffica&f too hard for honesty to conquer.
Mr. E1.1FBAL Jay, in Cheapside.— He was my joumey- man for near a year ; and I shall give him a tme c^ racter. Heismygoodfriend.aodhasshcwnmeaparticaiB respect ever since he lived in my family. His giavitr, justice, sweetness, and moderation, soften the ^reattft enemies of his name and person j and there is nathlnyia nature that hates him besides the devil and a jacotdte. Br is also happy in Ids relations. His aged father la eoo^ia- mate in all sorts of piety. His brother (the apotbccswy) is
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