EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 799
Rivington, in St Paul's church yard ; and was succeeded in his business by Mr. Hanwell, whose associate, Mr. Parker, bad been apprentice to Daniel Prince, and was a lineal descendant from Dr. Samuel Parker, bishop of Oxford, who died March 20, 1687.
1798, May 25. Died, Bedwell Law, a bookseller of extensive business in Ave Maria lane, London, who by his mild and unobtrusive manners secured the esteem of all who knew him. He was succeeded in business by his son, Charles. Another son, Henry, carried on a considerable printing business, in St John's square, in the house formerly Mr. Emonson's, afterwards John Rivington's, and since Deodatus Bye's.
1798, May 29. Printing presses and public schools suppressed in Russia, by order of the emperor Paul I. Paul was born Oct. 1, 1754, and strangled at St. Petersburg, March 23, 1801.
1798, May 30. Died, John Shave, many years one of the printers of the Ipswich Journal.
1798, Aug, 23. Died, Mr. Dennis, bookseller, Middle-row, Holborn, London, where he issued catalogues, in which were generally several very curious articles, particularly in the occult sciences. He died a young man.
1798, Sept. 6. Mr. Williams, who kept a reading-room in Old Round-court, in the Strand, convicted of lending a newspaper to read, and taking one penny for the use of it, was fined £5.*[1]
1798. During the time that Egypt was occupied by the French republican armies, they appear to have establisned printing-offices at Alexandria, as well as at Cairo and Gizch. An AraUe, Turkith, and Persian Alphabet, and Some Introductory Exercises in the Arabic Tonffue, appear in the Bibliotheea Mandeniana, bearing for imprint .i4/«»iiujrie, an. VI. (1798.) In I80t), a periodical work appeared at Cairo, entitled, Courrier de UEgypte, depuis le 12 Frac- tidor an vi, jusq'au 20 prairial an ix. in 4to. Of this one hundred and sixteen numbers were published. Some pieces relative to the assassi- nation of general Jean Baptiste Kleber, (Jime 14) appeared in 1800.
1798. Literary Hours, by N. Drake, M. D.f
1798, Apnl. The Weekly Register, No. 1.
1798, July. The Ladies' Monthly Museum.
1798. 7^ Philosophical Magazine.
1798. Public Characters, vol. I.
1799, Feb. 2. Died, Thomas Payne, senior, in the eighty-second year of his age, after having been for more that forty years a bookseller of the highest reputation at the Mews-gate, London. He was a native of Brackley, in Northampton-
t £«Mjrf, biographicttit critical, and historical, itttutra- tme of the RamiUr, Adeenturer, and Idler, and of the various periodieai papers which, tn imitation of the vritingt of Steele and Addison, haoe 6eeit published between the close of the eirhth volume of the Spectator, and the com- mencement of the near I809. By Nathan Drake, M.D., author of LUerarp Hours, and of the Essogs on the Taller, Spectator, and Guardian. In two volumes, foolscap Bvo. London: 1910.
shire ; and began his career in Round-court, in the Strand, opposite York buildings; where, after being some years an assistant to his elder brother, Olive Payne* (with who mthe idea and practice of printing catalogues is said to have originated) he commenced bookseller on his own account, and issued a Catalogue of curious Books, in Divinity, History, Classics, Medicine, Voya- ges, Natural History, ^c. Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, in excellent condition, and mostly gilt and lettered, dated Feb. 29, 1740, being almost the first of the catalogists, except Daniel Browne.f at the Black Swan without Temple Bar, and the short-lived Meers and Noorthouck. From this situation he removed to the Mews-gate, in 1760, when he married Elizabeth Taylor, and succeeded her brother in the shop and liouse, which he built, whence be issued an almost annual succession of catalogues, beginning 1755. In 1790 he resigned his busi- ness to his eldest son, who had lor more than twenty years been his partner, and who opened a new literary channel, by a correspondence with Paris, whence he brought, in 1793, the library of the celebrated chancellor, Lamoignon. This little shop, in the shape of an L, was the first that obtained the name of a literary coffee house in Ixindon, from the knot of literati that resorted to it; and, since the display of new books on the counter has been adopted from the Oxford and Cambridge booksellers, other London shops have their followers. If a reasonable price, and a rea- sonable credit for his goods, be the criterion of integrity, Mr. Payne supported the character of an honest man to the last; and, without the modern flash of wealth, which, ostentatiously exposed in a fine shop, has involved so many traders of all descriptions in difficulties and ruin, he acquired that fortune which enabled him to bring up two sons and two daughters with credit, and to assist some relations who wanted his aid. Warm in his friendships as in his politics, a con- vivial, cheerful companion, and unalterable in the cut and colour of hb coat, he uniformly pur- sued one gjeat object, fair dealing, and will survive in the list of booksellers the most emi- nent, for being adventurous and scientific, by the name of honest Tom Payne. The author of the Pursuits of Literature, who is an excellent appreciator of character, calls him " that Tripho emeritus, Mr. Thomas Payne, one of the honestest
- A copy of the work, which was written by king Henry
VIII. and which gained him from the pope the title of "Defender of the Faith," was stolen from the Vatican, and sold to the brother of Payne, the bookseller, of the Mews. gate. The bookseller received for it, ftom the mar- qnls of Douglas, an annuity for life.
t Daniel Browne was a well-known and eminent liook- seller, in the Strand, and is characterized by Dnnton, at page 030 ante. His son, John Henry Browne, was a few years a wholesale stationer in Lothbury ; but having an inclination for the church, was ordained by archbishop Cornwallis, and was presented by viscount Newark, heir to the doke of Kingston, to the rectory of Eakring, in NotUngtiamshlre, where he was highly respected for his piety and benevolence. In 179(1, he printed, bat not for sale, A Serious Address to the superior inhabitants of the parish of Eakring, Svo. This gentleman and Mr. Na- thaniel Conant, were the execntora to the will of William Bowyer, jun., and to whom he gave ^soo each.
VjOOQ IC
- ↑ * By the 29th Geo. III. cap. ix. any hawker or others, letting out a newspaper for hire, to forfeit £5, in addition to any other penalty in force. By the 39th of Geo. III cap. xxi. for carrying a newspaper, stamped or unstamped, to the enemy, a penalty of £300.
