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 representatives 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 Catalogues have been added to the Boghouse Miscellany,' 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.

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

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

D. H.

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.

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, esq. F. S. A. see memoirs in vol. V. pp. 368-372.

+ 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 infi nite 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!"

1768 Sir Brydges Baldwin; Dr. Lawson; and Mr. Lobb, of Peter-house, Cambridge.

1769 Rev. Mr. Wettenhall, Minister of Waltham

stow.

1772 Dr. Michael Festing, rector of Wyke Regis, Dorset; Richard Phelps, esq. Provost-marshalgeneral of the Leeward Islands; and Messieurs Richardsons,eminent Portrait-painters, of Queen

square.

1775 Sir Thomas Abdy, Bart. of Albyns; Rev. Stotherd Abdy, Minister of Coopersall; Dr. Dowset, Physician to the Charter-house; and the medical part of Dr. Daniel, of Colchester. 1776 Rev. Joseph Sims, Prebendary of St. Paul's; Dr. Edward Jackson, Rector of Christ church, Surrey,

1777 Mr. John Channing*, Apothecary, of Essexstreet; and Dr. John Roberts, of Ross.

Ballard, Samuel and Edward, Little Britain. 1758 Randolph Walker, esq.; Jervase Scot, esq.; Rev. Dr. Bar. Bulkeley,

1777 Miscellaneous.

1778 Wayman, M. D.

Barker, J. Russel-court, Drury-lane, 1790. Bathoe, William, near Exeter-'change, Strand. William Hogarth, esq. Serjeant-painter.

Baynes, William, Paternoster-row.

1796 Thomas Lloyd, Bristol; Wm. Taylor, Bath. Becket and De Hondt, Strand.

Books imported 1761-1766.

Bickerton, William, Devereux-court, Temple bar. 1727 Paul Beach, esq.

Bingley, William (by commission).

* The very learned Editor of " Rhazes de Variolis, 1767." This very intelligent Bookseller died Oct. 2, 1768.

A man of some notoriety in the days of Wilkes and Liberty. He began his political career, May 10, 1768, by publishing, at a shop opposite Durham-yard in the Strand, "The North Briton," No. XLVII. in continuation of the celebrated papers under that name by Mr. Wilkes; and, for a letter to Lord Mansfield in No. L. was called on by the Attorney-general to shew cause why an attachment should not be issued against him as Publisher; when he wished to have pleaded his own cause, but was not per

mitted,

1793 Dorne, bankrupt, at Feversham in Kent. mitted. His intended speech, with the proceedings of the Court, are given in No. LI. He was committed to Newgate, whence he addressed, July 1, a remarkable letter to Mr. Harley, then Lord Mayor, occasioned by some cruel reflections of his Lordship's, No. LV; another to the North Briton, No LIX. In Numbers LXIV. and LXXV. he is stated to have been the first person, independent of a Court of justice, imprisoned by attachment from the abolition of the court of Star Chamber. Nov. 7, after having been 72 days in Newgate, he was committed to the King's Bench, for " not putting in bail to answer interrogatories upon oath." Assisted, as he doubtless was, by the private advice of some distinguished Lawyers, the defence of the English subject's freedom, in his case, is nervously stated in No. LXXV. The result was, that, on Dec. 5, on entering into recognizance for his appearing on the first day of the next term, he was discharged out of custody. His declaration to the public on this head is in No. LXXXI. Jan. 23, 1769, persisting in his refusal to answer interrogatories, he was remanded to the King's Bench, No. LXXXVII.; and, Feb. 16, made a solemn affidavit that he never would, without torture, answer to the proposed interrogatories, No. XCI. June 14, 1769, he was brought from the King's Bench prison to the Common Pleas, by habeas corpus, to surrender himself to an action of debt, in order to be removed to the Fleet; but, though it appeared, by the return of the writ, that he was not in execution at the suit of the Crown, but in custody to answer interrogatories, the Court was of opinion they were not authorized to change the place of his confinement, and he was therefore remanded back. In August that year he published a new edition of the first XLVI numbers of the " North Briton," with explanatory Notes; and "an Appendix, containing a full and distinct Account of the Persecutions carried on against John Wilkes, Esq. With a faithful Collection of that Gentleman's Tracts, from 1762 to 1769." He still pursued the continuation of that work; and No. CXVII. was published July 22, by W. Bingley, a Prisoner in the King's Bench, and sold at his shop, No. 31, Newgate-street. In 1769 he was one of the editors of "L'Abbé Velly's History of France," of which only one volume was published. In June 1770, being "suddenly and unexpectedly released from two years' confinement," he commenced a new weekly paper, under the title of "Bingley's Journal." He still also continued " The North Briton" till No. CCXVIII. May 11, 1771; after which day he incorporated those Essays, for a few weeks longer, in his Weekly Journal; till at length, after having been long flattered, by the party which had made him their tool, with the vain hope of a gratuity of 500l. his credit in trade became exhausted, and he suffered for his temerity and credulity by an enrolment in the list of bankrupts. He afterwards sought refuge in Ireland, where for several years he carried on the business of a Bookseller; but, returning into this country in 1783, found an asylum in the of

1794 George Smith, of Peircefield, esq. including fice of Mr. Nichols the Printer (in which capacity he originally set out in life), and where he in some degree found repose from the turmoils of political strife. He could not, however, refrain from authorship. In 1787 he illustrated with notes "The Riddle," by the unhappy G. R. Fitzgerald, esq.; wrote an essay on = the Basaltine fires in Ireland; a pamphlet on Smithfield Market, and against Carcase-Butchers; a curious letter on Stones falling from the air; and a quarto pamphlet on the late Re"The New Plain bellion in Ireland.-He also published = Dealer, or, Will Freeman's Budgets," a periodical work, "continued occasionally, at various prices, according to quantity." Four numbers only of the work appeared between 1791 and = 1794; consisting, chiefly, of a farrago of political spleen, and invectives against courtiers and their dependents. Prefixed to it was a portrait of the author, under the character of "an Eng=lish Citizen, who was two years imprisoned in English Bastiles, without trial, conviction, or sentence," and a long account of his own sufferings, under the title of "A Sketch of English Liberty;" in which he states that 500l. was actually voted to him at a meeting of the Constitutional Society, on the suggestion of Mr. Horne Tooke; but that, at a subsequent meeting, Mr. Wilkes stood foremost in opposition to the money being raised for him on that Society. In the preface to No. IV. the writer modestly likens himself to a phoenix; phoenix; "he exists merely of himself-he has passed through the fire of persecution, and, in imitation of that bird, has risen again from his own ashes; so that his subjects of Fires and Illuminations, singular as they appear, are only natural. But, although a phoenix, and perhaps such a one as may never again rise in this part of the globe, the citizens of London need be under no apprehension of his ever setting fire to the Thames. The principal danger lies against the writer himself, who, instead of possessing that energetic fire which might be expected of a phoenix, may, and he fears will too soon, appear to partake more of the heaviness of a goose." No. V. was announced as an intended "Sequel to the Memoirs of the late Jack Straw, Sinner, Saint, and Devil, who sold books by millions." -In 1796 Mr. Bingley published, "A Supplement to Smithfield Market, shewing the Power of the People, and the Practicability of a Plan for reducing the Prices of Butchers' Meat."-He was a man of strong natural understanding, though not much assisted by literature; and was of the strictest integrity; but unfortu nately possessed an habitual irritability of temper, which proved a perpetual discomfort. With the most earnest inclination to do right, he frequently wandered into error; and a considerable portion of his time was employed in making apologies for mistakes which a slight consideration would have prevented. He was for 36 years happy in a connubial connexion with a very worthy woman, by whom he left three daughters; all of whom being respectably married, he again engaged in a matrimonial connexion, Jan. 21, 1798, with the widow of a Captain in the India trade, who survived to lament his almost sudden loss.

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