SONGS OF THE PRESS

AND OTHER POEMS

RELATIVE TO

THE ART OF PRINTERS AND PRINTING;

ALSO OF

AUTHORS, BOOKS, BOOKSELLERS, BOOKBINDERS, EDITORS,
CRITICS, NEWSPAPERS, ETC.

Original and Selected.

WITH NOTES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY.

Thus have I sought with garland flowers to dress
The giant frame of our immortal PRESS;
These flowers will fade, this feeble hand decay,
But it shall flourish in unsetting day.

M'CREERY.

FISHER, SON, & CO.

ANGEL STREET, ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND, LONDON;
POST-OFFICE PLACE, LIVERPOOL; PICCADILLY, MANCHESTER.

ERRATA.

Note-Page 111, for "June 13, 1840," read "June 13, 1839." Note-Page 113, for "June 7, 1842," read " June 7, 1840."

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