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A very important Reference Work for the Trade:

CASPAR'S

General Directory

OF THE

American Book, News and Stationery Trade,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

INCLUDING THE

Publishing, Subscription, Retail Book, Antiquarian, News, Map, Art, Music,
Manufacturing-, Jobbing- and Retail Stationery, Blank Book and
Paper Manufacturing Business, and General Jobbers in
above Lines, in the United States and Canada.

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Giving the present and former firm names of Publishing Houses, with cross references, and if these firms issue descriptive catalogues or trade price-lists, stating whether the latter are contained in the "Trade

List Annual," 1873 to 1886, and in which years of the "Annual" these lists appear. Also indicat-
ing such firms enumerated therein as have gone out of business, and from whom the
publications of the more important publishers who are no longer in business,
may now be obtained; the present and former firm-names of the
Manufacturing and Jobbing Stationers, and

whether they issue trade-lists,
etc., etc., etc.

Containing also a key to the approximate financial standing of every firm embodied therein, based on the latest commercial reports. With several copious, systematical and

analytical indices.

All information contained in this Directory being the result of many years of practical experience and research, chiefly received from or verified by the enumerated firms themselves. Forming a convenient and practical Manual for all Publishers, Booksellers, Newsdealers, Stationers or Librarians.

BY C. N. CASPAR, MILWAUKEE, WIS.,

Bookseller, Publisher and Stationer, Compiler of the "Directory of Antiquarian Booksellers, etc."

Price to Subscribers $8.00 net,—to Non-subscribers $12.00 net.

NEW YORK,

Office of the "THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY,"

1887.

Copyright secured 1857.

A full Prospectus may be obtained by addressing the compiler: C. N. Caspar, 437 East Water Street, Milwaukee, Wis.

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PERENZENY

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Bookmart Publishing Company, Pittsburg, Pa. U. S. A.

Entered at the Post Office, Pittsburg, Pa., as second class in ter

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Leavitt, Géo. A. & Co., New York, 432 Levi, Edward E., . . American Exhibition in London, 426 Leon & Bro her,

Appleton, D. & Co.,.

Bacon's Book Store,

Bangs & Co., .

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Joseph,

New York, 420 Traver, C. L., Trenton, N. J. 429
Pittsburg. 414 Williams, A. K.,.... Washington, 49
New York, 431 Young, E.&J. B. & Co., New York, 414
FOREIGN.

London, 427

A n. & For'gn Mag. Depot, N. Y., 431 Libbie, C. F. & Co., ......... Boston, 422
New York, 432 Lowdermilk. W. H. & Co., Wash., 429 Amer, Richard,
Pittsburg, 414 Luyster, A. L.,
........New York, 431 Brown, William,...................... .Edinburgh, 428
New York, 431 Lyons, Will.
Newport, Ky., 414 Carson Brothers, Dublin, Ireland. 427
New York, 431 Edwards, Francis... London, Eng. 427
New York, 431 Fawcett, H..
London, 127
Washington, 429 Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna, 428
New York, 431 Harrassowitz, Otto,
.San Diego, Cal. 430 Kerr & Richardson,.
List & Francke.
Maggs, U.,

Co.,

Benjamin, W. E., ... New York, 430 Mac, E. A.,
Bonaventure, E. F. New York, 430 McDonough,
Bruckner, M.,.
New York, 431 Merry, P. C.,
Burton's Book Bazaar, . Chicago, 430 Moss Engraving
Campbell, Wm. J..........Phila., Pa. 429 Orcutt, C. R. . .
Caspar C. N., .. Milwaukee, 424 Plimpton, F. B.,
Chiniquy, Rev. C...Kankekee, Ill. 429 Price, C. J.,
St. Louis, 428 Rowell, Geo. P. & Co.,
New York, 431 Sabin, J. F.,

Crawford, A. A., . .
Crosby, F. Co.,

Cincinnati, 428
Philadelphia, 429
New York, 430
Pearson, J. & Co.,
New York, 432 Reader, A...
Phila., 429
Rimell, J., & Son,
Washington, 429 Robson & Kerslake,

Dowling, Thomas, ..Washington, 42 Saunders, Walter W.,

Farnell, A. F.,

Foote, Dr. E, A..

Gagnon, P.,

Gunther, C. F..

Leipzig, 415

Glasgow, 428

Leipsig 414

London, 427

London, 427

London, 427

London, 427

London, 426

London, 427

Brooklyn, 430 Scott, W. H., .Philadelphia 429 Sparhawk, W. T... W. Rou, dout, 428 Roche, Ja i es, Boston, Mass. 425 Stevens, Henry & Son. London, 427 Chicago, 430 Thomas & Lasher... Buffalo, N. Y. 429 Thin, James, Edinburgh, 428 Hickcox, John H., Washington, 429 Thomas Law Book Co., St. Louis, 428 Wildy & Sons, .........) London, Eng. 427

Quebec, 428 Ticknor & Co...

PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

Subscription Price of the BOOKMART $1.50 per year, for the United States and Canada: 7 shillings for Great Britain; 9 francs for France; 7 marks for Germany, and 9 lires for Italy.

In answer to inquiries, would state that we can supply only a few complete sets of Volumes one, two and three, price Five Dollars. Volumes two and three we can supply at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Volume. Subscription to the journal not included in Advertising contracts..

THE

BOOKMART.

VOL. IV.

BOOKS.

Cloth, leather, paper, ink and gold

Harbor treasures manifold.

All the wisdom of mankind,

All its laughter and its tears,
Hawk-eyed hopes, and fears blind,
All that is, or that appears:

Love and Loss, and Youth and Age,
Time-the jest and test of God-
Linger on the mystic page,-
Lurk, like seed within the pod;
Seed which, planted every day,
Still remains to plant anew,-
Gives, but cannot give away,—
Nourishes, yet stays with you!

MARCH, 1887.

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I love thee, Southey! From thy pleasing lines
Looks out thy ever cheerful face;
In every lineament the grace

Of manly tenderness and goodness shines;
Laborious days were thine, and mines

Of learning deep didst thou explore;-
But more I love thee for thy nobler part,-
For courage high, and ever gallant heart,

For kindly words thou didst outpour
To soothe the spirits bruised and sore;

I love to think of thee among thy books,
With wife and children at thy knees,
Amid the cherished sanctities

Of loving words and tones, and peaceful looks.
Pittsburg, Pa.
T. J. CHAPMAN.

Whole No. 46.

THE BOOK FANCIER.

The Book Fancier; or, the Romance of Book Collecting. By Percy Fitzgerald. Scribner & Welford, New York.

Book-hunting, which, if we may judge from an expression in Lucian, antedates by many centuries the art of printing, and which in every subsequent age has had its votaries-call them, according to taste, "bibliomanes" or "bibliophiles"-has had, too, its pleasant chroniclers, noteworthy among whom are Dr. Hill Burton and Dr. Dibdin. Much, however, has happened since the production of their works-which are now, in their turn, sought for with eagerness by collectors and the time had clearly arrived for some new chronicler, sympathetic, well-informed, and possessing facility of expression, to serve up, for the delight of the present generation, “things new and old" in connection with this fascinating pursuit. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's pleasant volume, of some three hundred closely printed pages, which he modestly commends as containing "many curious and interesting things not readily accessible," and dealing "in some fashion with almost everything connected with book,'" will be sure to receive a cordial welcome from a not unimportant and rapidly increasing circle of readers. Of course, Mr. Fitzgerald has something to say of the Gütenburg Bible -generally spoken of as the "Mazarin," from its discovery by De Bure in the Mazarin library—a copy of which on vellum was recently sold by auction for £3,900; of the Schoeffer Psalter for which £4,950 was paid; and of other works whose rarity and desirableness command prices which render them caviare to the multitude. But this is, happily, not the case with all the "incunables," cradle books, as the productions of the first presses have been somewhat pedantically designated, for some black letter volumes of the fifteenth century are still obtainable at moderate prices, glorious in beauty of type, blackness of ink, and texture of paper, but rejected by ultra-fastidious collectors, as having suffered, more or less, in the way of reduction of margin, from the misdirected zeal of the bookbinding fraternity. In reference to some such objects of research it has been said: "A hair's breadth increases its value in the proportion of carats in the case of diamonds." This is one of the pitfalls into which

the unwary collector may fall, who, with insufficient knowledge of these niceties, ventures to assign value to any given work. Here is another such pitfall: "The little Elzevir 'Cicero' is much sought. But have a care, stall fancier! for some are printed on a fine paper, the others on an inferior paper." Then, again, there are fraudulent imitations; but, oddly enough, there are cases in which such falsities, having become rare, exact a price possibly even in excess of the original.

The works of the early Continental printers elicit from Mr. Fitzgerald enthusiastic admiration. "It is wonderful," he says, "to think that every incident connected with the making of a book was to be found within ten years from the introduction of printing almost exactly the same as it is now-the watermark, the system of noting and registering the sheets, binding, &c. This grandeur of treatment, which made a book a sort of monument, left its impression on the men who conceived and carried out the enterprise. The supremacy of German energy and enterprise has never been so triumphantly shown as in this development of printing, and the obligations of the world to this great nation are extraordinary." Much more stinted is his praise of the first English printer, Caxton, whose books he describes as "slight and unpretending efforts by comparison with their stately volumes, as though his establishment lacked resources, both of money and mechanism; the type and printing, too, will not bear minute criticism, which the foreigners seemed to invite or defy." In proof of his statement he refers to the increased difficulties encountered by restorers of missing pages of Caxton's works. One of the most skilful of these, Whitaker, who supplied two leaves in facsimile for a copy of the Mazarin Bible, seems to have successfully battled with these difficulties. "His mode was this. He had the missing passage traced from a perfect copy, some founts of Caxton letters cast, and each fixed in a sort of binder's tool. But then came the difficulty; Caxton had no uniformity, and had sometimes twenty variations of the same letter. The restorer had then with his binding tool to stamp off every letter, guided by the tracing, and thus produced, at a great cost, certainly, what seemed all but identical with the copy." Of the much-sought-for works of Caxton, we learn that the British Museum has eighty-five examples, of which twenty-two are duplicates. Apropos of restorers, Mr. Fitzgerald notes a speciality to which one lady is said to devote herself, earning a livelihood "by skilfully filling up wormholes in old books, each leaf being separately and patiently dealt with, the material being chewed or 'pulped' and pressed into the hole; the charge is said to be sixpence a hole." Among the finest of the older generations of printers, Mr. Fitzgerald classes Baskerville, Foulis of Edinburgh, Tonson, and Bulmer; Baskerville receiving special eulogy as "an artistic printer," and the only one who "received the stamp of foreign reputation or approbation."

'The bindings of books have now become an object of regard-in many cases of supreme regard-among book collectors. "Old bindings of the first class," says Mr. Fitzgerald, "are now ardently sought, and at huge prices, and the matter is complicated by an additional taste for gold scutcheons and devices on the outside, and for book plates within; nay, some of them, such as those with the De Croy arms and Groliers, are secured at fancy and almost terrific amounts." Grolier was one of the four treasurers of France during the reign of Francis I. He was an ardent book collector, and liked to invest his selected works in robes of honour. "The binding he adopted was remarkable for the fine character of its interlaced ornament, which is said to have been designed by himself in moments of leisure. Each volume was adorned with the amiable description: The property of John Grolier and his friends,' a curious contrast to that of another French collector, who e bookplate bears a text from the parable of the Ten Virgins: Go to them that sell and buy for yourselves.'' Among the most remarkable examples of luxurious binding, besides the peerless "Bedford Missal," belonging to the British nation, Mr. Fitzgerald notes "the cloisonnée enamel cover of the Greek gospels in the library of Siena; an ivory cover of Byzantine school at Würzburg in Bavaria; the remarkable early pieces in carved ivory at Berlin; the Codex Whittikind; the very early cover in the Hildesheim Treasury' 'open cut,' studded with crystals, gems, and cameos; the most interesting ivory-carved cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald, preserved in the Imperial Library of Paris; the beautiful cover in copper gilt and niello of the Sainte Chapelle New Testament at Paris." Among the grimmest of fancies is an octavo volume, preserved in a library at Bury St. Edmunds, containing a full report of the trial of a murderer named Corder, executed about forty years ago, "bound in the murderer's skin, which was tanned for that purpose by a surgeon in the town." The skins of cat, crocodile, mole, seal, black wolf, royal tiger, otter, white bear, sole, and rattlesnake, have been, at different time, utilised in book-binding. Mr. Fitzgerald furnishes this key to the principle regulating the binding of books at the British Museum: "The great majority of the books are bound in half morocco, with cloth to match the leather. Historical works are in red, theological in blue, poetical in yellow, natural history in green. Besides this, each part or volume is stamped with a mark by which it can be distinguished as their property; and of different colours: thus red indicates that a book was purchased, blue that it came by copyright, and yellow that it was presented." Among odd incidents connected with bookbinding blunders, we have notice of the fact that "recently Bishop King's dissertation on the Origin of Evil was sent home from the binders lettered 'King's Evil.'" Many volumes are now being stripped of the book plates, which indicate through whose hands they have passed, the collection of "book

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