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Having, with very narrow opportunities of reference, gathered a few notes (which are neither so full nor so accurate as I could wish) regarding these publications, and not being in a position to carry my search further, I submit them in their present rough state to the readers of "N. & Q." for large additions and corrections. It will be seen that my little catalogue ranges from 1629 to 1760. Among the publications which attracted the attention of foot-passengers at the dingy shop windows of the Three Bibles, the Looking Glass, the Angel, and the Black Boy, there appear to have been no tall folios, no heavy classics, ancient or modern, no brain-racking metaphysical disquisitions, no political squibs. There was little that rose above the level of the chap-book. The slender duodecimos mostly contained "easy things to understand," suited to the taste of light readers and small learners of all opinions; but, due allowance being made for the literary licence of those times, there does not appear to have been much in these catchpennies that was very low or scandalous, or that could forefathers, simple-minded Kentish yeomen. For have greatly harmed the morals of my mother's them there were Cocker's Dictionary and Arithmetic, A Treatise on Thistles, Gervase Markham's Horse Leech and Accomplished Jockey, Lambert's Countryman's Treasure, and a handful of shabby abridgments of popular romances to be read aloud at night in chimney corners. For country girls in Servant Maid, and for sailors about to embark quest of service in Lunnon there was The Compleat at Pepper Alley Stairs there were the Seaman's Kalender and the Mariner's Jewel. For the humbler clergy there were an epitome of ecclesiastical history, a scrap or two of acrid religious controversy, and a few works on divinity, which, although of light and pocketable bulk, afforded a good amount of heavy reading. For visitors to town there were handbooks of London and various disquisitions upon criminals and London cheating. Most of these small publications must originally have been of very low price, and must have been published in large editions, as even now few of them are very rare or costly. I have not included in the list of books published in Southwark at the "Bridgfoot," or upon Fish Street Hill," near London Bridge, where, John Bagford says, R. Northcott kept the Marriner and Anchor in 1677. It is not very difficult, with good views of the bridge before us, to define the position of most of the principal booksellers' shops; but to do this it must be borne in mind that the houses on the north end of the bridge, up to the first opening, were burnt down in 1633 and never permanently rebuilt until about 1671; and that in 1725 the whole of the south end of the bridge, including Traitor's Gate, was also destroyed. These latter houses must, however, have been speedily restored. The title of a book published in 1679 shows that the Angel on London Bridge was a little below the [Traitor's] Gate." As we have evidence of the existence of the Three Bibles as early as 1660, when there were no houses on the north end of the bridge, it must have been situated between the first opening from the north and the Southwark end. I have only been able to trace the existence of the Three Bibles down to 1724; but there is an edition of one of the books published by H. Tracey, the proprietor, dated 1776, when there were no longer any houses on the bridge. There was also a shop called the Old Three Bibles, but it is not shown to have been a bookseller's. Mr. Thompson gives in his Chronicles of London Bridge a notice, published in 1724 by H. Tracy, of the Three Bibles, warning the public that Mr. John Stuart, "at the Old Three Bibles, as he calls his sign, although mine was the sign of the Three Bibles twenty years before his," had pirated a medicine In my childhood a copy of this had a very extensive reputation for healing among the rustics of the heaths between Woking and Chertsey. This was sent to me, as a certain cure, when I was ill with fever. I placed it inside my shirt and soon recovered. As a physician, I question not that it did me good,-confident hope validly aiding recovery. Magnus Corner," in this year. called the Balsam of Chili which had been sold at the Three Bibles "these forty years." J. Blaro kept the Looking Glass on London Bridge in 16881704. T. Norris published there in 1715-21, and perhaps later. Mr. Thompson shows that at a much later date there appear to have been two booksellers' shops known by the sign of the Looking Glass on London Bridge, for the Life of John Overs was printed for T. Harris at such a sign in The authorities of the Guildhall Library would 1744, when T. (this must be a misprint for James) do well to endeavour to obtain a complete set of Hodges was a publisher at the Looking Glass on the London Bridge books, and of other works pubLondon Bridge, over against St. Magnus Church. lished in the City of London proper. The fullest It is probable that T. Harris was a piratical inter-notice of the London Bridge booksellers and their loper, as I only find one other trumpery duodecimo publications with which I am acquainted is that published by him in 1741. I find James Hodges given by Mr. Richard Thompson in his Chronicles. at the Looking Glass in 1736, and he certainly He cites the collection of book-titles which John continued to publish there until 1757 or 1759. The Bagford made for a general history of printing, Looking Glass was probably allowed to stand until preserved with the Harleian MSS. in the British the other bridge houses had been demolished, or Museum. Bagford gives the titles of five London even later, as it must have stood on a dry arch or Bridge books. Thompson adds four more of his on the extreme tête du pont, for I have before me own collecting. I have included these in my. y list: an admirably executed engraving displaying the vista down Fish Street Hill, in which the bridge appears without buildings, but in which the houses opposite to St Magnus's extend quite as far as the church (which is the last building on the east side) if not beyond it. I notice that in his list of London publishers, 1623-1834 ("N. & Q.," 6th S. iii. 404, 464; iv. 242), MR. W. G. B. PAGE does not recognize the existence of any of the London Bridge fraternity. On the other hand, the author of the chapter on London Bridge in Knight's London appears to go rather too far in favour of these petty literary chapmen when he says that "in the sixteenth century this street ranked with St. Paul's Churchyard, Paternoster Row, and Little Britain as one of the principal literary emporia of the city." I have found Bohn's Lowndes sadly disappointing in this search. It gives no allusion to the booksellers on the bridge or to their signs. Will not MR. PAGE, or some other learned bibliographer, remove entirely from that useful work the indefinite and unsatisfying "Lond.," giving the old publishers' names and signs in full, as they appear on the title-pages? My own recollections convince me that the possessor of any one of the little works purchased on London Bridge became noted in his village as the happy custodian of a literary treasure. When a child, but an eager inquirer for books, much more than fifty years ago, in a rather wild district of Surrey, I long heard of a famous book which was on its passage from one farmhouse to another over a wide tract of country. When at length I obtained the great privilege of reading it I found it to be a rifling sixpenny chap-book, such as the pedlers carried round in little bundles with their other wares. Three years ago I just failed to purchase, at Worthing, a rough broadside, formerly well known in country places as "Our Saviour's Letter." 1629. The Merchandises of Popish Priests; or, a Dis. couery of the Jesuites Trumpery, newly packed in England. Laying open to the world how cunningly they cheate and abuse people with their false, deceitfull, and nion, and truly translated into English. Written in French, by John Chassa Printed at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at his shop on London Bridge. Small 4to. 1629. counterfeit wares. 1660. The Wise Merchant; or, the Peerless Pearl: set forth in some Meditations, delivered in Two Sermons. Charles Tyns, dwelling at the Three Bibles on London By Thomas Calvert. London. Printed by H. Bell for Bridge. 8vo. 1660. 1663. The Destruction of Troy, with many Admirable Acts of Chivalry, &c. Seventh edition of Caxton's translation. Black letter, 4to. F. Coles and C. Tyns on London Bridge. 1663. See editions of 1684 and 1708. 1668. Gervas Markham's Masterpiece, containing all Knowledge belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse Leech, &c. 4to. Sold at the Three Bibles on London Bridge, 1668. Philo-Nauticus. London. Printed by W. G. for Ben1672. The Seaman's Kalender. By Henry Phillippes, jamin Hurlock, and are to be sold at his shop over against St. Magnus Church on London Bridge, near Thames Street. Small 4to. 1672. Familar Method suitable to the Meanest Capacity for *This is the first edition. "N. & Q." (6th S. i.) contains a large store of materials for a bibliography of the "upwards of sixty editions" (Lowndes) of Cocker's Arithmetic, collected for the most part by MESSES. desirable that the valuable notes of the two former GEORGE POTTER, J. T. CLARK, and W. RENDLE. It is gentlemen should be made complete by citation of the names and addresses of the publishers of all the London |