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NOTES ON.
PRINTERS AND PRINTING
“IN THE PROVINCIAL TOWNS, OF:
~ ENGLAND AND WALES

# PAPER | READ AT THE FIRST SAN OAh MEETING
‘OF THE. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF:

THE UNITED. KINGDOM
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NOTES ON

PRINTERS AND PRINTING

IN THE PROVINCIAL TOWNS OF

ENGLAND AND WALES

A PAPER READ AT THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM
Oct. 3, 1878

BY W. H. ALLNUTT
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Assis BE: the Bodleian Library Oxford

 

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PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS

1879
 

 

 

PRINTERS AND PRINTING IN THE PROVINCIAL TOWNS

OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

vincial presses, although
a subject of considerable
interest, should hitherto
have been almost entirely
neglected by local historians is somewhat
remarkable. Ten years have now passed
since the publication of the late Mr. Davies’
“Memoir of the York Press,” a work well
worthy of imitation; and yet such ancient
cities and towns as Exeter, Bristol, Nor-
wich, and Shrewsbury, concerning the pro-
lific presses of any of which a volume al-
most equal in size and interest to that on
York might well be compiled, are still neg-
lected.

In 1863 the Rev. S. F. Cresswell issued a
small quarto of forty-four pages, entitled
“ Collections towards the History of Print-
ing in Nottinghamshire ;” in 1864 Mr. J.
H. Hinde read before the Society of Anti-
quaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne an inte-
resting paper on “ Printing at Newcastle in
the Seventeenth Century ;” a list of books
and another of pamphlets, published in
Liverpool, have been printed in the
“Transactions of the Historic Society of
Lancashire and Cheshire ;” the press of
Manchester has been noticed in Mr. Proc-

 

tor’s “ Memorials of Manchester Streets ;”
Mr. Worth, in his “ History of Plymouth,”
gives a short notice of the press of that
town; Rowlands’ ‘Cambrian  Biblio-
graphy,” edited by Mr. Silvan. Evans, gives
some valuable information concerning the
Welsh press, but it is unfortunately con-
fined to those who have a knowledge of
that language, and the author has included
undated books in his chronological ar-
rangement somewhat at random. Besides
these and a few other instances, the history
of a provincial town will sometimes be
found to contain a paragraph or two de-
voted to a list of newspapers, their births,
sicknesses, and deaths; one of these para-
graphs will usually be found to notify
that the proprietor and publisher of the
local history is also the proprietor of the
“ oldest established newspaper now extant
in the town.” It is surely not too much
to expect of the historian that he should
devote a tithe of his researches, and one
chapter of his book, to the history of that
noble art by means of which he is enabled
to communicate the result of his labours to
the literary public, and to hand it down to
posterity.

For some few years after the introduc-

 
4 PRINTERS AND PRINTING

tion of the art of printing into this country,
we find it encouraged and fostered by the
highest authorities of the land, ecclesiastic
and lay, presses being established at West-
minster, Oxford, and St. Alban’s; and in
t Rich. III. an Act was passed by which
strangers connected with the art were per-
mitted to take up their abode and exercise
their calling in England. This, however,
does not seem to have caused the estab-
lishment of any provincial press, strictly
so called, except that of York. The Act
remained in force till 1533, when a suffi-
cient number of Englishmen having made
themselves acquainted with the art ap-
parently found the foreigners somewhat
intrusive ; accordingly a new Act was then
passed, declaring the former one void, and
prohibiting the sale by retail of printed
books brought from beyond sea.

Some few years later on presses were
established at Ipswich, Canterbury, and
Worcester; but they were at work for a
short period only, the earliest being estab-
lished in 1547 while the latest is silent after
1553. A press was set up at Norwich in
1568, but that also lasted for a few years
only, and from this period it seems to have
become the settled purpose of the legis-
lature to discourage the exercise of the art
in provincial towns, an Act being passed
in 1583 actually forbidding its use except
in London and the two Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge. The press of
York, it may be remarked, had been silent
for just over half a century.

The celebrated Marprelate press, and
those carried from place to place during
the civil wars, are well worthy of conside-
ration; but, not being properly speaking
provincial presses, their movements cannot
be entered into minutely here. We may,
however, note that during these troublous
times presses were at work at Bristol,
Shrewsbury, Exeter, and Vork, and since
then the last named has never again been
without a printer, special provision being

made in 1649 by an ordinance of Parlia-
ment for the press of that city, and for the
“printing-press now used in Finsbury,” in
addition to those of London and the two
Universities. In1644, when the city of York
fell into the hands of the Parliamentarians,
the Royalist printer, Stephen Bulkley, re-
moved himself and his press to Newcastle,
where he continued to reside and practise
his art till after the Restoration, when he
returned to the city of York.

In 1662 was passed a very restrictive
Act of Parliament, which stipulated “That
no person or persons within the City of
London, or the Liberties thereof, or else-
where, shall erect or cause to be erected
any Press or Printing-house, . . . . unless
he or they shall first give notice
to the Master or Wardens of the Company
of Stationers... .. For the time to come
no man shall be admitted to be a Master-
Printer, until they who are now actually
Master-Printers, shall be by death or other-
wise reduced to the number of Twenty,
and from thenceforth the number of
Twenty Master-Printers shall be continued,
and no more, besides the King’s Printers,
and the Printers allowed for the Univer-
sities... .. That the Printing-Presse in
the City of York be not restrained ; so as
all Bookes of Divinity there printed, be
first Licensed by the Archbishop of York;
and all other books be first Licensed by
such persons to whom the licensing thereof
doth appertaine .. . . . No Bibles to be
printed there.”

This Act was voted to continue at diffe-
rent times till 1666, when a Committee was
appointed to examine it, after which several
Bills on the subject were presented to gar-
liament and rejected ; but in 1685 the Act
of 1662 was again revived and continued
in force till 1693, after which date, not-
withstanding the efforts of the interested
monopolists to restrict it, the exercise of
the art became practically free, and rapidly
spread through the provinces.
IN PROVINCIAL TOWNS. 5

We now arrive at that part of our sub-
ject which the present paper is principally
intended to illustrate. Exeter, Plymouth,
Bristol, and Shrewsbury were all possessed
of presses before the end of the seventeenth
century; and in another score of years
twenty other towns at least could chronicle
the advent of a press, though its establish-
ment was not in all cases permanent. In
1724 we have it on record from a contem-
porary writer, one Negus, that there were
twenty-eight printing- houses in the country,
and that Bristol, Canterbury, Chester,
Norwich, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, and
York were each possessed of two. Let it
be noted, however, that the list compiled
by Negus is incomplete, for it does not
include either Reading or Exeter, in the
latter of which two printers at least were
then exercising their art.

Of course it is to be expected that the
men who led the way into the provinces,
especially with newspaper enterprises, did
not always make a first happy choice of a
town to settle in. Thus Robert Raikes,
the father of the founder of Sunday-schools,
tried both St. Ives in Huntingdonshire,
and Northampton, before he finally settled
at Gloucester; whilst one William Parks,
after trying successively Ludlow, Hereford,
and Reading, emigrated to America. In
1739 another start was made at Hereford
by Willoughby Smith, concerning whom,
in a letter from William Brome to Dr.
Richard Rawlinson, dated Feb. 23rd,
1732, we have the following informa-
tion :—‘‘In some of your letters you en-
quired after printing-presses in England:
last spring I set an house I have in Here-
ford for that business: and since Christ-
mass my tenant in one night removed all
his effects and press, and put up, or some-
body for him, over the door in capitals

‘*¢Pyay Landlord Landlord be content
With the Key instead of your rent.’

And the key was under the door.” *

It would not be possible to enter fully
into the further. progress of the provincial
press in a paper of this kind ; but, in order
to give some idea of its rapid development
down to the end of the eighteenth cen-
tury, a tabular list is appended, showing
the earliest date at present ascertained at
which a printing-press is known to have
been at work in each provincial town of
England and Wales. The list is no doubt
in many instances capable of correction ;
but it is compiled with the hope of stimu-
lating librarians of town libraries to follow
the example already set by Birmingham
and other centres,f to collect and preserve
the local literature of their respective dis-
tricts, and especially to secure, while yet
obtainable, any books, pamphlets, ballads,
or broadsides having the slightest pretence
to be called early specimens of local presses,
not only of their own cities or towns, but of
other places:in their several neighbour-
hoods.

Archdeacon Cotton’s “ Typographical
Gazetteer” having been compiled under
specially disadvantageous circumstances,
is naturally imperfect in information on
this subject, and the accompanying list
will be found to supply an earlier date, in
most instances; but where a later one is
given, e.g. Bath, it may be taken as a cor-
rection.

 

* Rawlinson MSS., Letters, xxxi. 93 (Bodl.
Lib.).

+ See Appendix. ‘‘ Table of Places in England
and Wales; with their earliest specimens of Typo-
graphy.”

t Iam informed by Mr. Briscoe of Nottingham,
that the Free Library there, as also those of Leices-
ter and Cambridge, possess local collections.
TABLE OF PLACES IN ENGLAND AND WALES,
WITH THEIR EARLIEST SPECIMENS.
OF TYPOGRAPHY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place. Date. Printer. Book or Pamphlet, &c., Printed.| Authority.
Aberhonddu or Breck-
nock, g.U.
Abertawy or Swansea,
gu.
Abingdon, Berks. 1528. |J. Scholar. Portiferium. Em.Coll.Camb.

» 1771. |J. Stacey. D. Turner’s Rhetoric. Bodleian,
Albans (St.), Herts. 1480. Rhetorica nova fratris L. G. de |Bodleian,

tyes Saona.

os 1534. |J. Herford. Lyfe and passion of saint Albon.|Brit. Mus,
Alnwick, Northumb. 17—. |T. Lindsay. Hindley.

at 1790. |J. Catnach. si
Alston, Cumb. 1799. |J. Harrop. Alston Miscellany. Bodleian.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 1760(?) J. Garner’s Sermon. J.P. E.
Atherstone, Warwick. | 1800. |J. Harris. 4 J. Chartres’ Sermon. W. #H. A.
Aylesbury, Bucks. 1778. |For T. Dagnall. Aylesbury Races [a poem]. Bodleian.
Bala, Merioneth. 1748(?)\J. Rowland. E. Rowland’s Pedwar o Gywyd-|Rowlands.

deu.
Banbury, Oxon. 1771. \J. Cheney. Mr. Cheney,

<3 1781. ot Sale Catalogue, Fr. Pigot, Esq. a
Barnstaple, Devonsh. |c. 1790. |F. Murch. For the Information of thelJ. R.C.

Ignorant [broadside].

Bath. 1733. |F. Farley. To the Fore-Chairman [a poem]./Brit. Mus.
Bedford. 1785. |B. Hyatt. Bedfordshire Directory. Bodleian.
Berkhampstead, Herts.} 1793. |W. McDowall. N. May’s Sermons. 78
Berwick-on-Tweed. 1754. |R. Taylor. J. Locke’s Natural Philosophy. 2
Beverley, Yorkshire. 1510. |H. Goez. A broadside. Ames.

3 1798. |M. Turner, R. & W. Stephenson’s advt. Bodleian.
Birmingham. 1716. |M. Unwin. J. Southall’s Sermon. Cotton.

” 1717. PD J. Parkinson’s Loyal Oration. |Birm. Library.
Blackburn, Lancashire.| 1792. |J. Waterworth. J. Walcot’s Indian Convert. Bodleian.
Blackley, Lancashire. 1791. |W. Harrison & Co. |L. Howel’s Desiderius. Manch.FreeLib.
Blandford, Dorsetshire.| 1786. |For W. Sollers. Form of Prayer. Bodleian.
Bocking, Essex. [1788]. |Fenno & Shearcroft.|J. Mason’s Spiritual Songs. ”
Bodedern, Anglesey. 1734. |L. Morris. Cotton,
Bodmin, Cornwall. 1793. 5
Bolton, Lancashire. 1761. +y

53 1784. |B. Jackson. W.H. A.
Boston, Lincolnshire. 1731. Boston Weekly Journal. Fe

09 1770. |C. Preston. G. Boyce’s Reply to Wesley. | Bodleian.
Bosworth, Leicestersh. | 1775. |R. Grimley. Cotton.
Bradford, Yorkshire. 1785. |W. Portch. J. Wingrove’s Hymns. Bodleian.
Brecknock. 1772. |E. Evans. S. Llewelyn’s Caniadau, &c. Rowlands.
Brentford, Middlesex. |c. 1763. |P. Norbury. Description of Kew. Bodleian.
Bridgenorth, Salop. 1797. Power.
Bridgewater, Som. 1767. W. 4H. A.

” 1790. |S. Symes. R. Anstice on Carriages. Bodleian.
Bridlington, Yorks. 1793. |J. Leadley. Beauties of Thought. ”
Bridport, Dorsetshire. 1786. |S. Margrie. The Antient Coins [a poem. ] si
Brighton, Sussex, ce, 1780, |For J. Bowen. Description of Brighthelmstone. 4
 

 

 

 

 

 

8 APPENDIX.

Place. Date. Printer. Book or Pamphlet, &c., Printed.} Authority.

‘Bristol. 1546. Power.

5 1643. |R. Barker. Association of Cornwall & Devon.|Bodleian,

sy 1695. |W. Bonny. J« Cary’s State of England. 5
Bromsgrove, Worc. 17—. Cotton.
Buckingham. 1777. |J. Seeley. 3
Bungay, Suffolk. [1796]. |C. Brightley. Rules of Harleston Volunteers. |W. H. A,
Burnley, Lancashire. 1798. |S. Thornton. Works of Flavius Josephus. Col. Fishwick.
Burslem, Staffordshire.) 1796. |J. Tregortha. M. Bosanquet’s Christian Guide. |Bodleian,
Bury, Lancashire. 1793. |R. Haworth, M. Moore’s Spiritual Pilgrimage. |L. G.
Bury-St.-Edmunds, 1717. Suffolk Mercury. N. and Q.

‘5 1720. |Baily & Thompson. |T. Birch’s Two Sermons. Bodleian,
Caermarthen. [1723.] |N. Thomas. D. Lewis’ Bwyd Enaid. Revue Celt.
Cambridge. 1521. |J. Siberch. Galen de temperamentis. Bodleian, us
Canterbury. 1549. |J. Mychell. Psalter, or Psalms of David. Ames. 23

- 1717. Kentish Post. Caxton Exhib.

a 1722. |For J. Abree. J. Bartlett’s Poems. W. H. A.
Carlisle. 1784. |J. Milliken. Bp. Law’s Theory of Religion. |{Brit. Mus.
Carnarvon. 1797. |T. Roberts. E. Jones’ Carol ar Conewest.. |Rowlands,
Chelmsford. - 730(?) Chelmsford Chronicle. Cotton.

Sn 1764. Chelmsford Chronicle. Caxton Exhib.
Chelsea, London. 1745. Cotton.
Cheltenham. 1786. |S. Harward. John Smith on Chelt. Waters. |Bodleian.
Chertsey, Surrey. 1792. |E. Dundas. The Chertsey Instructor. re
Cheshunt, Herts. 1778. |T. Baldwin. J. Parnell, Auction Bill, 5
‘Chester. 1656(?) Cotton.

5 1711]. J. Cowper’s Sermon. Bamburgh.
Chesterfield, Derby. 1774. {J. Bradley? Cotton.
Chichester. 1724, Negus.
Chippenham, Wilts. 1765. Self-commissioned Apostle. Bodleian,
Christchurch, Hants, 1792. Cotton.
Cirencester. 1720. |T. Hinton, E.L.Griffin’s Table of Fees. Bodleian,

3 1742. |G. Hill. A. Palmer’s Gospel New-Crea-|J. I. D.

. ture, 3rd Edit.
Clipstone, Northamp. 1799. |J. W. Morris. A.Fuller’sGospel its own Witness.| Bodleian.
Colchester. 1648(?) Choak-Peare for the Parliament. 6

aa : 1733. |J. Pilborough. J. Tren’s Two Discourses. 56.
Congleton, Cheshire. 1790. |J. Dean and Son. /|Sermon before Freemasons, L. G.
Coventry. 1721. |S. Davis. Ratiocination upon Voting. Bodleian.
Cowbridge, Glamor. 1770. |R. and D, Thomas. |D. William’s Dedwyddol, &c. |Rowlands.
Crediton, Devon. 1775. Cotton.
Crewkerne, Somerset. 1788, 33
Croesoswallt or Oszwes-

LY, GU.
Croydon, Surrey. 1788, Gray’s Elegy in French and Latin|Bodleian,
Darlington, Durham. 1771. |J. Sadler. M. Raine’s English Rudiments. ”
Deptford, Kent. 1793. |J. Delahoy. Cotton.
Derby. ; 1720. |S. Hodgkinson. The Derby Post-Man. N. and Q.
Deritend, Warwicksh. | 1791. |J. Belcher. Account of Birmingham Riots. |Bodleian.
Devizes, Wiltshire, 1769. |T. Burrough, Trans. of Portuguese Memorial. ”
Devonport. 1770. Plymouth Magazine, R. N. W.
Dolgelly, Merioneth. 1799. |T. Williams, S. T. Hanes y Byd. Rowlands.
Doncaster, Yorkshire. 1724. |[— Ward]. Negus.
Dorchester, Dorset. 1798. |T. Lockett. New Weymouth Guide. Bodleian.
Dorking, Surrey. 1789. Edwards’ Tables of Distance. _|Cotton.
Douglas, Isle of Man. 1783. |J. Briscoe. Acts of Tynwald. Bibl. Monens.
Dudley, Worcestersh. 1794. |J. Rann. Description of Dudley Castle. Cotton.
Duffield. 178-. |— Richards, Redfern.
Durham. 1733. |J. Ross. Durham Cathedral, as it was, _/ Bodleian.
Edmonton, Middlesex.| 1792. |E. Brown. Erwood’s Auction Bill. »
Egham, Surrey. 1791. |C. Boult, Bp. Wilson’s Principles and Du-|W. H. A.

: ties, &c.

Enfield, Middlesex, 1794. |J. Poole, Rules of Enfield Amicable Soc, |Bodleian.
Epsom, Surrey. 1746. {for M, Laugham, Love and Loyalty [a novel]. ”
APPENDIX.

 

 

* This was a private press belonging to Sir H. Savile.

 

 

 

+ Supposed really to have been printed abroad.

 

9
Place. Date. Printer. Book or Pamphlet, &c., Printed.| Authority.
Eton, Bucks. c. 1607* |J. Norton. Cotton.

a 1730. |J. Pote. Catalogus alumnorum. Bodleian,
Etruria, Staffordshire. 1787. J. Wedgwood’s Catalogue, 6th ed. 5)
Evesham, Worcestersh.| 1791. |J.Agg. Cotton.
Exeter. 1645. |For T. Hunt. Thos. Fuller’s Good Thoughts, |Brit. Mus.

” 1688. |J. B. Speech of Prince of Orange. Bodleian,
” 1698, |S. Darker. Bread for the Poor [by R.D.] 9
Falmouth, Cornwall, 1753. |M. Allison, Sam. Walker’s Sermon. 53
Faringdon, Berks. 1798. |L. Piggot. [J. Stone’s] Hist. of Faringdon. ”
‘Finsbury, London. 1646. |W. Bentley. The Holy Bible. ”
Frome, Somersetshire.| 1796. Cotton.
Gainsborough, Linc, 1776. Cotton.
is 1778. |J. Mozley. H. Hodgson’s Effusions of the|Bodleian.
Heart.
Gateshead, Durham. 1652. |S. Bulkeley. T. Wolfall’s Doctrine and Prac-\J. H. Hinde.
tice of Renovation.
” 1710, |J. Saywell. Newcastle Gazette, or Northern|Adv. Libr.
Courant.
a 1807. |J. Marshall. The Botanist’s Guide, vol. ii. |Bodleian,
Gloucester. 1713t |T. Cobb. The Young Cobler of Glocester.| _ ,,

” 1722, |R.Raikes&W.Dicey.|Gloucester Journal. N, and Q.
Glynde, Sussex. 1770, J. P.B.
Gosport, Hants. 1708. Churchwardens’ Accounts. Cotton.

33 1zI10. |J. Philpott. E. Waller’s Trip to Portsmouth. |Brit. Mus.
Grantham, Lincolnsh. 1790. |W. Allen. List of Aldermen. Bodleian,
Gravesend, Kent. 1786, |R. Pocock. Cruden. ;
‘Greenwich, Kent. 1554.4 |C. Freeman. A faythfull Admonycion.(Lutiw\ Bodleian, /4 f°”

os 1748. |T. Henderson. J. Butley’s Sermon. PP
Guildford, Surrey. 1763. |C. Martin. J. Geere on Plays, Games, &c. |Brit. Mus.
Halifax, Yorks, 1759. |P. Darby. A Treasury of Maxims. Bodleian.
Hanley, Stafford. 1799. Packet for Youth. C.W.S.
Hart Hill, Cheshire. 1796. Dr. T. Percival’s Father’s In-|Hotten.

structions.

Harwich. 1784. Power.
Hastings, Sussex. 1797. The Hastings Guide. Hotten.
Haverfordwest, Pemb. | 1798. |— Potter. W.H. A.
Helston, Cornwall. 1798. |T. Flindell. Pope’s Essay on Man, Bibl. Cornub.
Hendon. 17—. |A. Hamilton. Timperley.
Henley-on-Thames, 1780, Power.

Ss 1789. |G. Norton. W. iH. A,

Hereford. [1721]. |W, Parks, Pascha; or, Dr. Prideaux ex-|Bodleian.
amined.
Hertford. 1772.
Hexham, Northumb. 1780, |W. Ord. An Account of certain Charities. |Bodleian.
Highgate, London. 17—. |A. Hamilton. Timperley.
Hinckley, Leicestersh. | 1773. |W. Ward. W.H. A.
Hitchin, Herts. 1800, jJ. Bedford, Resdetions for Review at Hat-|Bodleian.
eld.
Holt, Norfolk, 1800. {J. Parslee. E. Bartell’s Observations on| ,,
Cromer.
Holywell, Flint. 1798. |E, Carnes. “er Davies’ Cnewyllyn mewn |Rowlands.
wisg.
Horsham, Sussex. 1784. |A, Lee. Journal from Bassora to Bagdad.|Brit. Mus.
Horslydown. 1777. |J. Brown. J. Toulmin’s Memoirs of Socinus. 53
Howden, Yorkshire. [1797]. |J. Savage. Hist. Account of Wressle. Bodleian.
Huddersfield, Yorksh. | 1778. |J. Brook, W. Moorhouse’s Sermon, G. W. T.
Hull, Yorkshire 1740. Cotton.
” 1745. List e Subscribers to Assoc. at/W. H. A.
York,

+ Possibly a fictitious imprint.
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Place. Date. Printer. ~|Book or Pamphlet, &c., Printed. Authority.
Ipswich, Suffolk. 1534(?)|R. Oliver. Juvenci Historia Evangelica. Cotton,
5 1548. |A. Scoloker. Certeyne Precepts by H. Zuing-|Bodleian.
lius.
i 1548. |J. Overton. J. Bale’s Illustrium scriptorum| _,,
maioris Britannic summarium,
&e.
i 1548. |J. Oswen. The Myndeof M. Jhon Caluyne.|__,,
3 1584. Gempertinga transl. by G. P. |Brit. Mus.
5 1636.* [W. Prynne’s] Newes from Ips-|Bodleian,
wich, [Edun oegls ,G defers]
172, . Harrison’s Sermon. W. Hz. A,
Islington, London. 1748. Nirnitehead’s Manners, a Satire. |Brit. Mus.
Ives(St.), Huntingdon | 1718. |J. Fisher. St. Ives Post. Bodleian.
a 1718. |R. Raikes. St. Ives Post Boy. 55
Ives (St.), Cornwall. 1720. St. Ives Mercury. Cotton.
Kendal, Westmoreland.| 1731. |T. Cotton. Kendal Courant. Nicholson,
Kenilworth, Warwick.| 1777. |S. Thornton. Concise History of K. Castle. {Bodleian.
pee ah 5. |N. Rollason. W. Jesse’s Discourse. t
ingsbury, Midd. 1781. Power.
Kington, Hereford. 1793. |J. Barrel. J. Lodge’s Introductory History|Bodleian.
of Hereford.
Kirkham, Lancashire. |[c. 1790].)H. Moon. Weserinton of Blackpool. Manch.FreeLib.
Knaresborough. 1787. |M. Broadbelt. Remarkable hist.of Robin Hood. |Bodleian.
Lancaster. 1783. |H. Walmsley. Names of the High Sheriffs. L. G.
Leeds, Yorkshire. 1718. |J. Hirst. Leeds Mercury, vol. ii., No. 49.|Caxton Exhib.
Leicester. 1724. Negus.
” 1739. T. Davy’s Additional Supplemt.|Bodleian.
3 “| [r74e]. |M. Unwin. ee Trial of Téhe Elan, Brit. Mus,
oS Hereford. Fae P. Davis, Leominster Poll-book, 1780. Allen.
; eX. 1742. Power.
” 1745. sie Sussex Advertiser. are.
; 1766. m. Lee, . Wise’s Provi . ian.
Lichfield, Staffordshire.|c, 1776. +|R. Greene. ne Weis.
? a 1781, |J. Jackson. A. Seward’s Monody on André, |Bodleian.
a 1729. |W. Wood. Articles of Visitation. ”
iverpool. 1712, |S. Terry. C. Owen’s Hymns. N. and Q.
2 ” »” Liverpoole Courant. ve
Pandovenys Caerm. |-* 1764. |R. Thomas. D.Jones’ Difyrwch i’r Pererinion.|Rowlands.
io ts e408 1480, |J. Lettou. Questiones Antonii Andreae. |Mag.Coll.Oxon.
ughborough, Leic. 1793. |— Adams, Jun, Bp. R. Watson’s Sermon. Manch.FreeLib.
Louth, Lincolnshire. [1790]. |R. Sheardown, Account of Society for Promotion|Bodleian.
aie Salop. 1719. |W. Parks, Soe otk Cotton.
oe Hants. 1798. |J. B. Rutter. W. Gilpin’s Moral Contrasts. {Bodleian.
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t A private press,
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Place, Date. Printer. Book or Pamphlet, &c., Printed.|_ Authority.
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EXPLANATION OF AUTHORITIES.

 

\LLEN. =Bibliotheca

Herefordiensis; com-
piled by John Allen,

Jun.
8vo.

flereford, 1821.

Ames.=Typographical antiquities ;

by

Joseph Ames, augmented by William

Herbert. Lond. 1785-90.

3 vols. 4to.

A. R.=J. Askew Roberts, Esq., Oswestry,

Salop.
14 APPENDIX.

BAMBURGH.=A catalogue of the library at
Bamburgh Castle, co. Northumb. ;
Lond. 1855. 2 vols. 8vo.

Bist. Cornus.=Bibliotheca Cornubiensis.
By G. C. Boase and W. P. Courtney.
Vols. 1, 2. Lond. 1874, 78. 8vo.

Bist. Monens.=Bibliotheca Monensis ;
new edit. by Wm. Harrison. Douglas,

Sor the Manx Soc. 1876. 8vo.

Caxton Exuis.=Catalogue of the loan
collection of antiquities connected with
the art of printing, South Kensington.
Edited by George Bullen. Lond. (1877).
8vo. 3

CuHENeEY (Mr.)=The grandson of the first
Banbury printer.

Cotton.=A typographical gazetteer, at-
tempted by the rev. Henry Cotton; 2
series.. Oxford, 1831-66. 2 vols. 8vo.

CRUDEN.=The history of Gravesend ; by
Robert Peirce Cruden. Zond. 1843. 8vo.

C. W. S.=C. W. Sutton, Esq., Chief Li-
brarian, Manchester Free Libraries.

Davipson.= Bibliotheca Devoniensis ; by
James Davidson. xefer, 1852. to.

FreLTHAM.=A tour through the Island of
Mann; by John Feltham. Lath, 1798..
8vo.

G. W. T.=G. W. Tomlinson, Esq., F.S.A.
Huddersfield, Yorks.

Haru. Misc.=The Harleian Miscellany.
Lond. 1808-13. 4to. 10 vols.

Hinde (J. H.)=J. Hodgson Hinde, Esq.
Newcastle. :

Hinpviey.=C. Hindley’s Life and times of
James Catnach. Lond. 1878. 8vo.

Hortren. =A hand-book of the topography
and family history of Englandand Wales ;
by John Camden Hotten. Lond. (1863).
8vo.

J. F. M.=Lectures on the literary history
of Warrington ; by John Fitchett Marsh.
Warrington [18—]. 8vo.

J. I. D.=Rev. J. Ingle Dredge, Vicar of
Buckland Brewer, Devon.

J. P. BJ. Potter Briscoe, Esq., Chief Li-
brarian, Nottingham.

J. P. E.=J. P. Earwaker, Esq., M.A.,
F.S.A.

J. R. C.=J. R. Chanter, Esq., author of
“Sketches of the literary history of
Barnstaple.” Barnstaple (1864). 8vo.

L. G.=Local Gleanings relating to Lanca-
shire and Cheshire ; edited by J. P. Ear-
waker. Manchester, 1875-78. 2 vols. 8vo.

Lower.=A hand-book for Lewes; by
Mark Antony Lower. 2nd edit. Lewes,
1852. 8vo.

N. and Q.=Notes and Queries.
1-5. 1849-79.

Necus.=Acompleat list of all the Printing-
houses, &c. ; p. 631 of C. H. Timperley’s
Encyclopedia of literary and typo-
graphical anecdote ; 2nd edit. Lond.
1842. 8vo.

NIcHOLSON.=The annals of Kendal; by
Cornelius Nicholson; 2nd edit. Lond.
1861. 8vo.

PoweER.=A handy-book about books, at-
tempted by John Power. Lond. 1870. 8vo.

REDFERN. = History of Uttoxeter; by Fran-
cis Redfern. Derby, 1865. 8vo.

Revue CELT.=Revue Celtique, dirigée
par H. Gaidoz. Paris, 1870-48. 8vo.

R. N. W.=R. N. Worth, Esq., F.G.S.,
author of “ Hist. of Devonport.” Ply-
mouth, 1870. 8vo; and “ Hist. of Ply-
mouth.” Plymouth, 1871. 8vo.

Row.LanDs.=Cambrian Bibliography; by
the late rev. Wm. Rowlands, edited by
the rev. D. Silvan Evans. Lianidloes,
1869. 8vo.

SMITH (Jos.)=A descriptive catalogue of
Friends’ books; by Joseph Smith.
Lond. 1867. 2 vols. 8vo.

TIMPERLEY. = Encyclopedia of literary and
typographical anecdote; by C. H. Tim-
perley. 2nd edit. Zotd. 1842. 8vo.

W. A. A.=W. A. Abram, Esq., Blackburn,
Lancashire.

W. H. A.=These are the initials of the
writer, and are, with few exceptions, only
used where a statement of the actual
authority would be too prolix.

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