16 Castle-street, Leicester Square, at a weekly rent of 16s, but with a capital reduced to about £10. That house is now my freehold property. In Castle Street, my exceptional industry, coupled with exceptional business aptitudes, not to mention the enjoyment of an iron constitution (nowise impaired by an abstemious and frugal private life devoted to study) produced corresponding but unexpected results. My progress was marvellous and surprised everybody. I worked day and night, and soon developed from a stall-keeper selling penny books into one of the leading second-hand booksellers of London. I always had such unbounded confidence in my own success, that in the earlier days of my employment by Mr. Bohn, when he used me as a porter and paid me 24s a-week (at a later date my salary rose to £110 per year), I said to him, "Ah! Mr. Bohn, you are the first bookseller in England, I mean to become the first bookseller in Europe." This ambitiousness was prejudicial, in so far as it prevented the concentration of all my strength upon the Old-book trade. I did a little publishing, and bought a few remainders, and dealt also in the retail of new English books and imported new Foreign books. In fact, I carried on the bookselling business in all its branches, but the Old-book trade especially. As an Old-bookseller, I printed in Castle Street, between April, 1847, and March, 1860, 157 Cata From March, 1860, when I transferred my business to its present address, my commercial relations continued to extend over all parts of the world; my dealings with the United States being particularly satisfactory and active. I printed in Piccadilly my Catalogues 158-331 (1860 to 1879), and various minor Lists of books. As above stated, my thirteen years' trading in Castle Street was in all branches of the book business; and in the (nearly) twenty years' trading in Piccadilly I have followed the same course. The present inquiry seems to concern an infinitesimally small portion of my business, viz.: my "Turn-outs," i.e. books which I specially wanted to get rid of, being either Old books of a low value, or my own publications of which I had large stocks, or remainders with which I desired to part,-and which were to be allowed to go at whatever prices they might fetch. These "Turn-outs" I sent to certain centres abroad, some of them to the United States. They realized little, but that little was welcome; and space was thus made on the shelves for other goods. This leads me to the history of my publishing and remainder business, of which I proceed to give an outline. An account of this branch of my business, as compared with the lengthy narrative which would be required for a survey of my Old-book trade, may be likened to the annals of a parish as compared with the history of a nation. I may as well say at once here 1. I have never published a book with any other date than the actual year of its publication. 2. I have never published a book with two different dates or titles. Just as a book was issued for the English market, so was it sold elsewhere. 3. In facsimile-reprints of text, I have naturally left the correct, i.e. the original date. Publishers frequently send out issues with fresh dates, but it is a fraud for the purpose of palming off an old book as a new one upon the deluded public. This scrupulous accuracy on my part seems to be a principal source of misconstruction and misrepresentation by enemies. 4. Whenever I reprinted a book with additions, I have of course put the new date on the title-as in the following instances, to mention only a few :Kemble's Anglo-Saxons in England; Lord Lyttelton and Mr. Gladstone's Translations; Faris' Arabic Grammar; Catafago's Arabic Dictionary; Redhouse's Turkish Dictionary; Hawkins' Silver Coins; and Allow me now to give a list of some of my publications and "remainder "-purchases, in chronological order. From 1847 to 1852, I bought small remainders, chiefly of Oriental books; also the German edition of D'Agincourt's History of the Fine Arts. In 1853, I bought the first portion of a grand remainder (at a later time the whole stock and plant) of Gruner's Ornamental Art. In 1855, I brought out my own first publicationWright's Christianity in Arabia. In 1861, Mr. Gladstone asked me as a mark of his personal regard for me-to publish for him and his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton, a volume of Translations from the Greek, of which, with his consent, I brought out a second edition in 1863. In 1865, I published Dircks' Marquis of Worcester. In 1866, I bought the publications of the Oriental Translation Fund, 73 various works, amounting to several thousand volumes. In 1867, I bought the stock of Pritchard's Natural History of Man, and Owen's Odontography. In 1868, I bought Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament. In 1868-69, I bought the stock of Messrs. Day and Son,-including Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament Westwood's Facsimiles of MSS. Humphreys' Art of Printing 1868 1868 1868 These books were of course sold just as I bought them, having all been delivered complete. In 1869, I bought in Munich the remaining stock of the Boisserée and Munich Galleries. were destroyed. The stones I also bought the stock and coppers of Gruner's Italian Frescoes; and I published Sclater and Salvin's Exotic Ornithology, 13 parts. In 1873, I bought in Dresden the Galerie de Dresde, 3 volumes, without the coppers. In 1874, I bought the entire stock of W. Rees of Llandovery, all ready-printed books relating to Wales; and in Neuchatel, the entire stock of the publications of the late Professor Agassiz (then already settled in the United States). In 1875, I bought Lumley's remaining stocks, including the English edition of D'Agincourt's History of Art, coppers, odd-stock, and text; Barrett's Magus, odd stock, and 23 copperplates; Westwood's Arcana Entomologica; and Sowerby's Genera of Shells. I bought also the stereos and stock of Müller's Ancient Art; the original printed text, odd-stock, and the stones, of Owen Jones' Alhambra, 2 vols.; and Rosini, Storia della Pittura Italiana, 7 vols. coppers and printed text. I printed-naturally with the proper date of 1875 -a new edition of Burckhardt's Arabic Proverbs. I purchased likewise the stock of Murchison's Geology of Russia, 2 vols. ; and the stock of Gruner's Terra Cotta Architecture-text and plates already produced. In 1876, I bought the bulk of H. G. Bohn's great remainder-stock, from Messrs. Chatto and Windus— viz., the works of Hogarth, Gillray, Meyrick, Shaw, Strutt, Pugin, and Cotman, Claude's Liber Veritatis, Knight's Eccles. Architecture of Italy, and Silvestre's Universal Palæography. This stock consisted of printed text, printed |