"Mr. URBAN,

After an interval of nearly six years, the following notice was taken of the preceding article: May 13, 1794. "In your vol. LVIII. p. 1065, so curious an account is given by D. H. of the origin of selling books by Catalogues, that I am tempted to solicit from the same intelligent writer an historical narrative of the Catalogues by marked prices; in which considerable assistance might yet be obtained from some remnants of the genuine breed,' p. 1068.

"One of the Ballards, I believe, still survives; as does that Trypho Emeritus, Mr. Thomas Payne, one of the honestest men living, to whom, as a Bookseller, Learning is under considerable obligations; and from whom the publick would be happy to receive such information as he, perhaps, above all other men in his profession, is enabled to bestow.

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By age and long experience rendered wise,' to him we look with confidence for instruction; and, I flatter myself, we shall not look in vain. "Of the two Sams mentioned by D. H. Mr. Paterson is living; and no one more capable of supplying so material a desideratum. Not less able also is Mr. Leigh, the partner and successor of the other Sam, who continues to support (and long may he do so!) the credit of the York-street Auctions. M. GREEN *."

Which was thus answered by Mr. Gough: "Mr. URBAN,

Oct. 3, 1794.

"You hold out so fair a challenge to continue the circulation of Learning by Catalogues of Books with the prices affixed, that I am tempted to take

kept house, and observed the actions of men, while the other roamed abroad for intelligence. He loved his bottle and his friend with an equal affection. He was very tetchy upon some occasions: yet thriving was part of his character. He printed L'Estrange's Æsop, Lord Halifax's Advice to his daughter, and many excellent copies." Dunton, p. 290.

* Gent. Mag. vol. LXIV. p. 396.

+ Ibid. p. 897; corrected and enlarged by Mr. Gough's MS.

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up my pen once more, to gratify the curiosity of
yourself and your Readers, by such a List as a pretty
regular perambulation among the various Bibliopoles
of the Metropolis, for a course of at least 40 years,
enables me to make out. So little do we reflect
that the pursuits of early life will contribute to the
information or amusement of more advanced age,
that it required the economy of a Rawlinson to
preserve sufficient materials to render this List
complete. You must take it as it is; and, if the
Booksellers who have survived, or the representa-
tives of those who are no more, can fill up the
hiatus, they will merit your and my thanks, and
prevent our regretting that so many of their Cata-
logues have been added to the Boghouse Miscel-
lany,' or other miscellanies of equal utility. The
intrinsic merit of some has kept the series almost
uninterrupted; while others, who had not even ‘a
name to live,' are lost in Lethe's stream. Such as
have names will shew posterity that the Dignitaries,
the Lords, the Esquires, and men of all ranks in
the present century, had Libraries, and perhaps
will obliquely point out to Biographers the dates
of their deaths or preferments.
D. H.

Anderson*, John, Holborn Hill, 1787.
1790 Hon. John Scott, Lincoln's-inn.
1792 Miscellaneous.

Arrowsmith, Middle-row, Holborn, 1795,
Baker, Samuel, York-strect.

1757 Arthur Ashley Sykes, D. D. Dean of Burien;
John Young, M. D. Cheshunt.

1758 Dr. Thomas Rundle, Bishop of Derry; and Italian and Spanish books of a deceased Noble

man.

Hon. John Talbot, a Welsh Judge; Abra*He died soon after the publication of his last Catalogue.

† Only brother to Henry Earl of Deloraine. He was of Gray'sinn, a counsellor at law, and a commissioner of bankrupts. He was born in October 1738; and died Dec. 30, 1788; having married Miss Young, who died Aug. 17, 1791; by whom he had one son, who died in America in 1779.

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ham

"Mr. URBAN,

After an interval of nearly six years, the following notice was taken of the preceding article: May 13, 1794. " In your vol. LVIII. p. 1065, so curious an account is given by D. H. of the origin of selling books by Catalogues, that I am tempted to solicit from the same intelligent writer an historical narrative of the Catalogues by marked prices; in which considerable assistance might yet be obtained from some remnants of the genuine breed,' p. 1068.

"One of the Ballards, I believe, still survives; as does that Trypho Emeritus, Mr. Thomas Payne, one of the honestest men living, to whom, as a Bookseller, Learning is under considerable obligations; and from whom the publick would be happy to receive such information as he, perhaps, above all other men in his profession, is enabled to bestow.

"

By age and long experience rendered wise,' to him we look with confidence for instruction; and, I flatter myself, we shall not look in vain. "Of the two Sams mentioned by D. H. Mr. Paterson is living; and no one more capable of supplying so material a desideratum. Not less able also is Mr. Leigh, the partner and successor of the other Sam, who continues to support (and long may he do so!) the credit of the York-street Auctions. M. GREEN *."

Which was thus answered by Mr. Gough †: "Mr. URBAN,

Oct. 3, 1794.

"You hold out so fair a challenge to continue the circulation of Learning by Catalogues of Books with the prices affixed, that I am tempted to take

kept house, and observed the actions of men, while the other roamed abroad for intelligence. He loved his bottle and his friend with an equal affection. He was very tetchy upon some occasions: yet thriving was part of his character. He printed L'Estrange's Æsop, Lord Halifax's Advice to his daughter, and

many excellent copies." Dunton, p. 290.

*Gent. Mag. vol. LXIV. p. 396.

+

Ibid. p. 897; corrected and enlarged by Mr. Gough's MS.

up

up my pen once more, to gratify the curiosity of
yourself and your Readers, by such a List as a pretty
regular perambulation among the various Bibliopoles
of the Metropolis, for a course of at least 40 years,
enables me to make out. So little do we reflect
that the pursuits of early life will contribute to the
information or amusement of more advanced age,
that it required the economy of a Rawlinson to
preserve sufficient materials to render this List
complete. You must take it as it is; and, if the
Booksellers who have survived, or the representa-
tives of those who are no more, can fill up the
hiatus, they will merit your and my thanks, and
prevent our regretting that so many of their Cata-
logues have been added to the Boghouse Miscel-
lany, or other miscellanies of equal utility. The
intrinsic merit of some has kept the series almost
uninterrupted; while others, who had not even a
name to live,' are lost in Lethe's stream. Such as
have names will shew posterity that the Dignitaries,
the Lords, the Esquires, and men of all ranks in
the present century, had Libraries, and perhaps
will obliquely point out to Biographers the dates
of their deaths or preferments.
D. H.

(

Anderson*, John, Holborn Hill, 1787.
1790 Hon. John Scott, Lincoln's-inn.
1792 Miscellaneous.

Arrowsmith, Middle-row, Holborn, 1795,
Baker, Samuel, York-street.

1757 Arthur Ashley Sykes, D. D. Dean of Burien;
John Young, M. D. Cheshunt.

1758 Dr. Thomas Rundle, Bishop of Derry; and Italian and Spanish books of a deceased Noble

man.

Hon. John Talbot, a Welsh Judge; Abra

* He died soon after the publication of his last Catalogue. † Only brother to Henry Earl of Deloraine. He was of Gray'sinn, a counsellor at law, and a commissioner of bankrupts. He was born in October 1738; and died Dec. 30, 1788; having married Miss Young, who died Aug. 17, 1791; by whom he had one son, who died in America in 1779.

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ham Castres, esq. Envoy to Lisbon; and Mr. Holloway, of Cheapside.

1759 Rev. Dr. John Scott; Richard Ince, esq.; and Robert Helyer, of the Temple, esq.

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Peter Nourse, Rector of Droxford, Hants, and Author of Discourses on the Homilies'; and his son, Rev. Major N. Minister of Higham, Kent, and Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge. 1761 Person of Quality; Charles Lethieullier*,LL.D.; Rev. Mr. Gunn, of Colchester; Rev. Mr. Nunns, of Yately.

1761 Dr.Vernon, Rector of Bloomsbury; Dr. Her ingham, Vicar of Tilbury; Rev. Mr. Spateman, minister of Chiswick; and Mr. John Moncrieff, author of the Tragedies of Agis, Appius, &c. 1762 Rev. Mr. Woodford, Canon and Treasurer of Wells; Robert New, esq. F. R. S. 1763 William Corry, esq.

1764 John Anthony Balaguer, esq. Secretary to the late Earl Granville; and Dr. Charlton Wollaston, F. R. S.

1766 Dr.Mansfield Price, senior Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge; Mr. Ashcroft, Rector of Mepsall, co. Bedford; Thomas Thompson, M.D, Baker and Leigh||.

* Of whom, and of his brother, Smart Lethieullier, see memoirs in vol. V. pp. 368–372.

esq.

F.S.A.

+ Died Feb. 26, 1771.

Died July 18, 1762,

§ Of this very respectable Bibliopole, who may almost be said to have been the first who brought the practice of selling books by auction into general use, see some memoirs in p. 161.

This genuine disciple of the elder Sam is still at the head of his profession, assisted by a younger Sam (see p. 162); and of the Auctioneers of Books may not improperly be styled facilè Princeps. His pleasant disposition, his skill, and his integrity, are as well known as his famous snuff-box, described by Mr. Dibdin as "having a not less imposing air than the remarkable periwig of Sir Fopling of old; which, according to the piquant note of Dr. Warburton, usually made its entrance upon the stage in a sedan chair, brought in by two chairmen, with infinite satisfaction to the audience. When a high-priced book is balancing between 15 and 201. it is a fearful signal of its reaching an additional sum, if Mr. Leigh should lay down his ham mer, and delve into this said crumple-horn-shaped spuff-box!"