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io". s. v. JOKE a, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1906.


CONTENTS.-No. 130.

NOTES : Hampshire Booksellers and Printers, 481 Houses of Historical Interest, 483 -Robert Greene's Prose Works, 484 Lafontaine's Milkmaid Book Signatures Rain : Earl of Huntingdon Funeral Invitations in Scotland Reynolds's Portrait of Gibbon, 487.

QUERIBS: -Geoffrey de Lusignan Robert Wingfield's Descendants -Rokewood: Style: Townsend " Egoteles " City of London Militia, 171, 488 Holm and Mastick Trees Authors of Quotations Wanted Companies of Invalids : their Records Medical Coroner jEschylus and Milton-Eton Swishing-Christina, Queen of Sweden- Lake of St. Lampierre in Canton of Berne Macaulay on the Thames- Wall Family, 489 " Cera Panis" Gordon House, Kentish Town John Rodes Devon Provin- cialisms, 490.

REPLIES :-Ballad by Reginald Heber : W. Crane, 490- Holyoake Bibliography Wetminster Changes in 1905: John Carter, 491 Provincial Booksellers Earthquakes in Fiction Goethe : "Bells, bugs, and Christianity" Travelling in England. 492 Tuileries Garden in 1796 " Cast not a clout till May be out " " Pearl " : its Etymon Banner Olvariua's History, 493' Century of Persian Ghazels' Sixteen Bishops consecrated at One Time "Revenue": its Pronunciation May Light and Young Men's Light in Pre-Reformation Churches, 494 Michell Family St. Genius, 495 Dogs at Constantinople Authors of Quotations Wanted Miss Meteyard " Anon" Irish Bog Butter Direction Post v. Signpost, 496 Cateaton Street J. Rampini Americans in English Records " In a huff " " Mininin," a Shell, 497 Samuel Williams, Draughtsman " I expect to pass through " Ropes used at Executions Barnes Pikle Open-air Pul- pits, 498" Gula Augusti," 499.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart ' ' The Pageant of London ' ' Plutarch's Lives ' ' John Siberch, the First Cambridge Printer, 1521-2.' Notices to Correspondents.


HAMPSHIRE BOOKSELLERS AND PRINTERS.

IN the list of provincial booksellers con- tributed by W. C. B. ante, pp. 141, 183, 242, there are 13 in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. In making researches some years ago into the history of journalism and the press in Hampshire I collected the names of about 100 booksellers and printers down to the end of the eighteenth century, and as this list has not nitherto been printed it may be useful to put it on record. The names have been mainly taken from the title-pages of books, which were often stated to be "printed for" or "sold by" a number of booksellers in different towns. Two or three engaged in associated trades an engraver, a bookbinder, and a stationer- have also been included ; and it is curious to note how the selling of quack medicines was frequently associated with the selling of books. The following list has not, with a few exceptions, been brought down later than the year 1800 ; and the earliest and latest years in which each name has been found are noted, together with variations in the


spelling of names or the titles of firms, &c. Two or three names added from W. C. B.'s list are indicated with his initials.

ALRESFORD.

N. Collington, 1790.

ALTON.

W. Cranston, bookseller, 1740-41.

W. Roe, 1790

Palmer, 1791.

William Pinnock, author of the familiar school- books, set up as a printer and stationer in High Street, and printed books in 1810-11. The Rev. John Vaughan, M.A., in a lecture on 'Some Local Celebrities of Alton,' read at Alton, 14 Jan., 1891 (reported in The Hampshire Chronicle, 25 Jan.), says Pinnock was afterwards in business in Winchester, Newbury, and London. The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' does not mention Winchester, but says he removed to Newbury about 1811. ANDOVKR.

Anthony Uwins, bookseller, 1725-7.

William Maud, 1790.

BASINGSTOKE.

Thomas Peacock, bookseller, haberdasher, milliner, and hatter, 1783-91.

J. Chambers, 1790-93.

J. Lucas (Basingstoke's first printer), 1804-8. CHRISTCHURCH.

Ph. Jenkins, 1790.

Co WES (WEST), I. W. Robert Deacon, 1782-90.

FAREHAM. Pottle, 1791.

GOSPORT.

James Philpott or Philpot, printer, Middle Street,

1710-36. (Cf. Winchester.) John Gover, bookseller, 1735. M. Maberley, 1750.

William Dawkins, printer, Middle Street, 1784. J. Watts, succeeded Dawkins, 1788 or earlier.

J. Watts, Naval, Military, and Medical Librarv.

1790-1800. J. Grist, Gosport, and Portsmouth Common, 1788.

(See Portsmouth.) William Harding, 1790. William Stephen Harding

& James Barton Harding, printers, bankrupt

J. Legg, 1799-1800.

Wm. Johnson, succeeded Watts about 1800.

W. Matthews, Broad Street, 1800. LYMINGTON.

R. Jones, 1789-90.

J. B. Rutter, printer, 1798-9.

NEWPORT, I.W.

Mr. Keeblewhite, bookseller, 1684-93. John Dun- ton, a bookseller, printer, and miscellaneous writer in London, had dealings with Mr. Keble- white, who, he says, " has a good trade, con- sidering the place ; but that is not his whole dependence; he has been twice Mayor of the town, and is not only rich, but a grave and discreet Churchman " (Timperley, ' History of Printing,' 1839, p. 631).

J. Wise, 1768. The Miss Wises, booksellers, 1782. M. & A. Wise, 1790.

J. Mallett, printer, 1782.

John Sturch, bookseller, 1782-94.

Mr. Adams, 1790.

John Albin, 1795-1804.