SONGS OF THE

OF THE PRESS

AND OTHER POEMS

RELATIVE TO

THE ART OF PRINTERS AND PRINTING;

ALSO OP

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-1,3-BAND, LONDON;

POST-OFFICE PLACE, LIVERPOOL; PICCADILLY, MANC'ESTER.

18-15.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 809044 A

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

R 1935 L

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

BY

THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT,

CH. TIM PERLEY.

The Caston Printing Ofice,

London, Dec. 1, 1845.