P. 606, 1. 11 from bottom, for "626," r. " 627.”

P. 606. Add to the Benefactions of the Stationers' Company : Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin, who died Aug. 19, 1809, was the widow of Richard Baldwin, who died in January 1776. She left 2507. in the 3 per Cents; the dividend to be applied in providing great coats to five poor liverymen, or to freemen should no liverymen apply for them.

Cents. ;

Andrew Strahan, Esq. gave, in 1815, 12257., 4 per and afterwards, in 1818, gave a further sum of 1000l. 4 per cents.; the dividends for the benefit of poor printers.

John Nichols, Esq. gave, in 1817, 500l., 4 per Cents.; the interest to be given to one poor printer 107., and to other two printers 51. each.

Luke Hansard, Esq. in 1818 gave 1000l., 4 per Cents.; and afterwards 15007., 3 per Cents., for the benefit of poor printers. He also provided for each apprentice when he is bound a Church of England Prayer Book.

Beale Blackwell, Esq. left by will 1007. a-year, to be divided among 20 poor printers. He died Dec. 16, 1817.

John Clarke, Esq. Law Bookseller, gave by will 1007., 3 per Cents.; two-thirds for the benefit of a poor widow, and one-third for the general purposes of the Company, He died March 8, 1838.

Charles Whittingham, Esq. printer, left by will 20007., 3 per Cents., the interest for the benefit of six poor widows of either compositors or pressmen. He died Jan. 15, 1840.

Jonas Davis, Esq. died in 1827. By will he bequeathed 30007. 3 per Cent. Stock after the death of his widow (which happened in 1829); to which was generously added by Mrs. Davis's executors, the Rev. John Barlow and Cecilia A. Barlow his wife, a fourth 1000l. stock, which sums were consolidated into one fund, which provides annuities of 187. each to six poor compositors.

J. B. Nichols, Esq. in his life-time, in 1855, gave 500l., New 3 per Cent. Consols, to raise the donations to the four pensioners on his Father's Fund to 10l. a-year each.

P. 606, 1. ult. Charles Rivington (son of Charles Rivington, Esq. Master in 1819), succeeded his uncle Henry, as Clerk, in

1829.

P. 607, 1. ult. George Greenhill resigned the office of Treasurer in 1849, when his son Joseph Greenhill was appointed.

P. 620, 1. 2, for "Mr. Dowdeswell," r. "Rt. Hon. Wm. Dowdeswell," and add note: "See Gent. Mag. vol. XLV. P. 151." P. 623, 1. 2 from bottom, r. Joseph Edmonson."

Ibid. note, 1. 3 from bottom, for " Wheatly," r. " Whitley."

P. 628, 1. 27. "M. Green" was one of the signatures used by Mr. Nichols in the Gentleman's Magazine. It was the maiden name of his wife Martha Green. D. H. (in p. 629) was Richard Gough.

P. 639, note, l. 1, r. "Cockfield."

P. 641. Peter Mainwaring, of Manchester, M.D. died Dec. 30, 1786, aged 90.

P. 642, note, l. 2. Mr. John Millan died Feb. 15, 1782.

P. 646, last note. The widow of Mr. Thomas Lowndes, bookseller, died in Boston Lane, Ealing, Oct. 2. 1806.

P. 648, note, 1. 7, for "King's College," r. "Trinity." Mr. Charles Marsh was F.S.A.

P. 651, 1. 3, r. "Sherard."

P. 654. Wm. Owen, bookseller, was tried for a libel, entitled "The Case of Alexander Murray, Esq." July 6, 1752, and acquitted. This was the third great case where the juries insisted on trying the matter of law as well as fact. See State Trials.

P. 656, l. 13. Dr. Mason died Dec. 18, 1770.

P. 665, notes, 1. 15. Mr. Benjamin Uphill died July 12, 1809, aged 42. See some verses to his memory by Mr. Lemoine in Gent. Mag. 1809, p. 749.

P. 672. Mr. Thomas Browne, bookseller, died April 27, 1801, aged 87. He was 30 years librarian to the Hull Subscription Library, and author of poetical pieces, first printed in the Hull Advertiser, and afterwards in a separate volume.

P. 673, note §. Mr. Collis died March 13, 1813. See vol. VIII. p. 469.

P. 675, note, l. 13. Mr. Thomas Etherington died Feb. 22, 1807. P. 677, 1. 4 from bottom, for "Charles Godwin," r. "Rev. Charles Godwyn, B.D. Fellow of Balliol College." See Memoir of Mr. Godwyn, in Hutchins's History of Dorset, second edition, vol. IV. p. xii. where is printed a series of his letters to Mr. Hutchins.

P. 681, note *. Mr. Thomas Miller died June 1807, aged 84. P. 693. William Smellie, of Edinburgh, was born in 1740; died June 24, 1795. See a good account of him in Timperley's History of Printing, p. 787; also in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary.

VOL. III. p. 714. In the "Literary Anecdotes," Mr.
Nichols has noticed very many Printers, Booksellers,
Stationers, &c. who flourished in the Eighteenth Century.
The following is an OBITUARY of Printers and Book-
sellers, &c. omitted in Mr. Nichols's work :-

1680. Died, John Martyn, an eminent bookseller, printer to the Royal Society. He is buried in the vaults of St. Paul's, near the tomb of Sir C. Wren. This monument has figures of himself and wife kneeling, also two children. See New View of London, 8vo. p. 473; and Carter's Pursuits of Architectural Innovation, vol. ii. p. 227. His character is thus given by Dunton: "He was printer many years to the Royal Society. He managed all his affairs with discretion, was a thriving man in his trade, and made a very pious end."

1722, Sept. 22. Died, at Edinburgh, Mr. James Watson, an eminent printer and news proprietor at Edinburgh. (See vol. IV.

pp. 79, 80.) See an account of him in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary.

1732, Nov. 20. Died, John Mears, bookseller. He was taken into custody for publishing a Philosophical Dissertation on Death;" together with the two authors of it, the Count de Passeran and Mr. John Morgan. Mears succeeded to the business of Richard Nutt, and printed the Historical Register.

1733. Died, Constantia Grierson, wife of George Grierson, who preceded Andrew Crook as king's printer for Ireland in 1732. Of this very learned lady see Timperley's History of Printing, p. 649. Mrs. Grierson had a son, who was king's printer in Dublin, and died in Germany, aged 76. The office of king's printer was continued in this family till very lately, when they retired from it in consequence of having taken the contract at too low a price.

1734, Aug. 31. Died, Joseph Downing, printer, St. John's Lane.

1735, Nov. 27. Died, aged 80, Robert Andrews (see vol. II. p. 363), a letter-founder near Charter House Square. He was one of the Court of Assistants of the Company of Stationers. Mr. Silvester Andrews, his son, carried on the business of letterfounding in Oxford. In 1733 Thomas James purchased both their foundries.

1736, Feb. 22. Died, Wm. Churchill, esq. bookseller to his Majesty. He was immensely rich, to which his printing Rymer's Fœdera, at Queen Anne's expense, greatly contributed.

1737, Sept. 20. Died, Nathaniel Mist, printer and proprietor of the Weekly Journal, a paper so obnoxious to the Government that it caused him to be several times prosecuted with the utmost rigour of ministerial or parliamentary vengeance. See Lit. Anecd. Gen. Index, vol. VII. p. 270.

Sept. 30. Died, Benjamin Sprint, bookseller, Little Britain. He was a Governor of Christ's Hospital.

Nov. 18. Died, Thomas Harbin, stationer, in the Strand, famous for his shining black ink.

1761, Feb. 10. Died, Mr. Crighton, printer, at Ipswich, Suffolk. 1761, April 4. Died, Mr. Shuckburgh, bookseller, Fleet Street, London.

Oct. 26. Died, Mr. Penny, printer to the East India Company. 1767, Sept. Died, John Übers, a journeyman printer, at Amsterdam, aged 106 years.

1768, Dec. Died, M. De Coignard, a printer at Paris, worth 180,000l. sterling.

In 1768 died, Samuel Fancourt, aged 90. He was the first promoter of Circulating Libraries in England.

In the same year died, Peter Simon Fournier, a French engraver, printer, and letter-founder, and author of several ingenious treatises on the rise and progress of Typography. His chief work is "Manuel Typographique," 2 vols. 8vo. He was of pleasing manners, and a man of virtue and piety.

1770, Jan. 22. Died, at Glasgow, M. Uric, a printer of some good Greek and Latin works.

Nov. 1. Died, Alexander Cruden, author of the well-known Concordance of the Old and New Testaments, and many years a bookseller in London. He opened a shop under the Royal Exchange in 1732. See Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, and Timperley's History of Printing, p. 722. An allusion to him occurs in a letter of Rev. E. Jones, Lit. An. vol. IX.

p. 628. 1771, Sept. 30. Died, Mr. John Hughs, printer. He was born at Thame, Oxfordshire, in 1703. His father was a dissenting minister. He received a liberal education at Eton College, and served a regular apprenticeship to a stationer and printer in London. He first entered into business about 1730 in Holborn, near the Green Gate, and removed to Whetstone Park, near Great Turnstile, facing the east side of Lincoln's-inn-Fields. In 1740 he incurred the displeasure of the House of Commons, by having printed "Considerations on the Embargo on Provisions of Victual." The usual proceedings took place. He was ordered to the bar of the House, declared guilty of a breach of privilege, and reprimanded on his knees. About 1763 he obtained, through Lord North, who had been his schoolfellow at Eton, the appointment of Printer to the House of Commons. He continued to reside in Great Turnstile; the office extending backwards in the rear of the house in Turnstile, and forming one side of Tichborne Court. He married Miss Dampier, sister of Dr. Dampier, Bishop of Ely. Her half-brother was the late Sir Henry Dampier, one of the Barons of the Exchequer. His son Mr. Harry Hughs died Sept. 5, 1810; and his widow, Elizabeth, died March 5, 1854, aged 83. 1773, March. Died, Mr. Abercorn, a German printer. 1777, July. Died, Mr. Wilson," bookseller, Paternoster Row. In 1764 he obtained damages for false imprisonment for printing The Monitor.

1779, July 20. Died at Glasgow, Dougal Graham, a printer, and the rhyming chronicler of the Rebellion of 1745. See Chambers's Lives of Eminent Scotsmen, and Timperley's History of Printing, p. 745.

1780, Feb. 20. Died, in Grey's Gate, Nottingham, aged. 72, Thomas Peet, land surveyor, astronomer, mathematician, and schoolmaster. He was the oldest writer in the Almanacks, having contributed to the Gentleman's Diary and Poor Robin for 40 years.

1782. Died, William Francis De Bure, the celebrated bookseller and bibliographer of Paris.

1782, March 21. Died, Mr. Baumgarten, bookbinder, a native of Germany, and a man of uncommon excellence in his business. 1782, Nov. 28. Died, Mr. Ridley, bookseller, of St. James's Street, Westminster.

1783, March 29. Died, Mr. Thomas Caslon, a bookseller in Stationers' Court. He was Master of the Stationers' Company in 1782.

1783, Sept. 16. Mr. W. Pasham, printer, of Black Friars, London, formerly of Bury, where he published "The Bury Weekly Journal." He was remarkable for printing, in a house on Finchley Common, a very beautiful pocket edition of the Bible, in imitation of Field's, with notes by the Rev. W. Romaine, which might be cut off, to evade the patent right of the King's Printer. See vol. II. p. 360.

1785. Joachim Ibarra (a native of Saragossa), printer to the King of Spain, who carried the typographic art to a degree of perfection which had not been before known in that country. He invented a superior kind of printing ink.

1786. John Gaspard, a bookseller at Zurich, in Switzerland. He published some esteemed works on entomology. His father was the celebrated John Gaspard Fuessili, who died in 1782; and who wrote a "History of the Artists in Switzerland," which is a good work.

1789, Feb. 6. Mr. Thomas Bensley, senior, printer, in Bolt Court, Fleet Street, father of Mr. Thomas Bensley, the eminent printer, of that place, who died on Sept. 11, 1835.

[In 1790, William Nicholson took out a patent for certain improvements in printing, the specification of which clearly shows that to him belongs the first suggestion of printing from cylinders. This patent was never acted upon.]

1790, April 17. Died, the celebrated Benjamin Franklin. See General Index to Literary Anecdotes, VII. 140, 568.

1791, Sept. 22. Of a decline, aged 24, Mr. Robert Baldwin, junior, bookseller, Paternoster Row, London. He was the eldest son of Mr. Henry Baldwin, printer (of whom see Lit. An. III. 467, 716; VIII. 478), and nephew of Mr. Robert Baldwin, senior (of whom see vol. VI. 443; VII. 744), with the latter of whom he had just entered into partnership. His younger brother, Mr. Charles Baldwin, the eminent printer of the St. James's Evening Post and the Standard, is noticed vol. III. 717. Mr. Robert Baldwin, jun. was buried at Caterham, Surrey, and there is a monument to his memory in the churchyard.

1793, June 1. Died, at Cheltenham, Richard Crutwell, proprietor and editor of the Bath Chronicle. A conscientious performance of his duty towards God, and an unbounded benevolence towards his fellow-creatures, were his rules of action in every relation of life. In a professional point of view his deservedly celebrated Bible of Bishop Wilson, 3 vols. 4to. which he printed, and the extensive circulation of the Bath Chronicle, which his exertions had raised to respectability, are monuments of superior skill and persevering industry. His press was decidedly far in advance in beauty of execution to that of most provincial printers.

1793, June 26. Died, at Selborne, the Rev. Gilbert White, the celebrated naturalist, on whose account some few particulars of his family (so intimately connected with the bookselling business) may be acceptable.

The father of the naturalist was John White, of Selborne, esq.