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Contents.Plot Neal has been living with his aunt following the death of his mother, and it is implied that he attempted to burn their house down. He has just returned to live with his father and new stepmother Angela, and younger brother Paulie. Although everyone seems to welcome him back, his father is very hostile, and the neighborhood kids believe that Neal is crazy. Neal speaks to Paulie about the true cause of their mother's death, revealed to be a monster that lives under their bed and is only repelled by light. The monster has begun to torment Paulie as it did to Neal, and the brothers must formulate a plan to destroy it once and for all.Cast. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of A History of Booksellers, by Henry Curwen.The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of Booksellers, the Old and theNew, by Henry CurwenThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and mostother parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictionswhatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms ofthe Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll haveto check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.Title: A History of Booksellers, the Old and the NewAuthor: Henry CurwenRelease Date: June 18, 2016 EBook #52362Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: UTF-8. START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF BOOKSELLERS, OLD AND NEW.Produced by MWS, Charlie Howard, and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive/American Libraries.).
“History” has been aptly termed the“essence of innumerable biographies;” andthis surely justifies us in the selection ofour title; but in inditing a volume to be issued in acheap and popular form, it was manifestly impossibleto trace the careers of all the eminent members,ancient and modern, of a Trade so widely extended;had we, indeed, possessed all possible leisure forresearch, every available material, and a spacethoroughly unlimited, it is most probable that theresult would have been distinguished chiefly for itsbulk, tediousness, and monotony. It was resolved,therefore, in the first planning of the volume, toprimarily trace the origin and growth of the Booksellingand Publishing Trades up to a comparativelymodern period; and then to select, for fuller treatment,the most typical English representatives of eachone of the various branches into which a naturaldivision of labour had subdivided the whole. And,by this plan, it is believed that, while some firms atpresent growing into eminence may have beenomitted, or have received but scant acknowledgment,no one Publisher or Bookseller, whose spirit and labourshave as yet had time to justify a claim to a niche inthe “ History of Booksellers,” has been altogetherpassed over. In the course of our “ History,”too, we have been necessarily concerned with themanner of the “equipping and furnishing” of nearlyevery great work in our literature. So that, while onthe one hand we have related the lives of a body ofmen singularly thrifty, able, industrious, and persevering—insome few cases singularly venturesome,liberal, and kindly-hearted—we have on the other, byour comparative view, tried to throw a fresh, at allevents a concentrated, light upon the interesting storyof literary struggle.No work of the kind has ever previously beenattempted, and this fact must be an apology forsome, at least, of our shortcomings.H.
C.November, 1873. “Laudat, amat, cantat nostros mea Roma libellos:Meque sinus omnis, me manus omnis habet.”Horace speaks of the repugnance he felt at seeing hisworks in the hands of the vulgar. Headpiece of William Caxton.In England the first stationers were probably themselvesthe engrossers of what they sold, when thelearning and literature of the country demanded asthe chief food A B C’s and Paternosters, Aves andCreeds, Graces and Amens. Such was the employmentof our earliest stationers, as the names of theirfavourite haunts—Paternoster Row, Amen Corner,and Ave Maria Lane—bear ample witness; whilethe term stationer soon became synonymous withbookseller, and, in connection with the Stationers’Company, of no little importance, as we shall soonsee, in our own bookselling annals.In 1292, the bookselling corporation of Paris consistedof twenty-four copyists, seventeen bookbinders,nineteen parchment makers, thirteen illuminators, andeight simple dealers in manuscripts.
But at the timewhen printing was first introduced upwards of sixthousand people are said to have subsisted bycopying and illuminating manuscripts—a fact that,even if exaggerated, says something for the gradualadvancement of learning.The European invention of printing, which herecan only be mentioned; the diffusion of Greek manuscriptsand the ancient wisdom contained therein,consequent upon the capture of Constantinople bythe Turks; the discovery of America; and, finally,the German and English religious Reformations, wereso many rapid and connected strides in favour ofknowledge and progress. All properly-constitutedconservative minds were shocked that so many newlights should be allowed to stream in upon theworld, and every conceivable let and hindrance wascalled up in opposition.
Royal prerogatives wereexercised, Papal bulls were issued, and satirists ( soi-disant)were bitter. A French poet of this period,sneering at the invention of printing, and the discoveryof the New World by Columbus, says of thepress, in language conveyed by the following doggerel:—. John Wight or Wyghte. Was living in 1551. Jacob Tonson.1656–1736.( From the Portrait by Kneller.)Jacob Tonson, born in 1656, was the son of a barber-surgeonin Holborn, who died when his two sonswere both very young, leaving them each a hundredpounds to be paid them on their coming of age. Thetwo lads resolved to become printers and booksellers,and, at fourteen, Jacob was apprenticed to ThomasBarnet. “With leering looks, bull-faced and freckled fair,With two left legs, with Judas-coloured hair,And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air.”The descriptive hint is said to have been successful.On another occasion, when Bolingbroke was visitingDryden, they heard a footstep.
“This,” said Dryden,“is Tonson; you will take care not to depart beforehe goes away; for I have not completed the sheetwhich I promised him; and, if you leave me unprotected,I shall suffer all the rudeness to which resentmentcan prompt his tongue.” And yet, almost atthis period, we find Dryden writing, “I am muchashamed of myself that I am so much behindhandwith you in kindness.”. “To make the parallel hold tack,Methinks there’s little lacking;One took his father pick-a-back,And t’other sent his packing.”In December, 1699, Dryden finished his last work,the “Fables,” for which “ten thousand verses” he waspaid the sum of two hundred and fifty guineas, withfifty more to be added at the beginning of the secondimpression.
In this volume was included his Ode toSt. Cecilia, which had first been performed at theMusic Feast kept in Stationers’ Hall, on the 22nd ofNovember, 1697.In 1700 the poet died, but Tonson was by this timein affluent circumstances.About the date of Dryden’s death, probably beforeit, as his portrait was included among the other members,the famous Kit-Cat Club was founded by Tonson.Various are the derivations of the club.
“Fear held them mute. Alone untaught to fear,Stood dauntless Curll: ‘Behold that rival here!The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won:So take the hindmost, hell,’ he said, ‘and run.’Swift as a bard the bailiff leaves behindHe left huge Lintot, and outstript the wind.As when a dab-chick waddles through the copseOn feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops,So labouring on with shoulders, hands, and head,Wide as a windmill all his figure spread,With arms expanded Bernard views his state,And left-legged Jacob seems to emulate.”And finally Curll stumbles into an unsavoury pool:—. Guy’s Hospital.( Bird’s-eye view from a Print, 1738.)Guy seems to have contracted in his early daysvery frugal and personally pernicious habits. Accordingto Nichols, he is said to have dined every day athis counter, “with no other table-cloth than an oldnewspaper,” and if the “Intelligence” or the “Newes”of that period really served him for a cloth, the dishthat contained his meat must have been uncommonlysmall.
“He was also,” it is added, “as little nice inhis apparel.” It was probably, too, in the commencementof his career, that, looking round for a tidy andinexpensive helpmate, he asked his servant-maid tobecome his wife. The girl, of course, was delighted,but, alas! Presumed too much upon her influence overher careful lover; seeing that the paviours who were repairingthe street, in front of the house (an order wasissued, in 1671, to every householder to pave thestreet in front of his dwelling, “for the breadth of sixfeet at least from the foundation”) had neglected abroken place, she called their attention to it, but theytold her that Guy had carefully marked a particularstone, beyond which they were not to go. Samuel Richardson, Bookseller and Novelist. 1689–1761.( From a Picture by Chamberlin.)The honourable post he occupied shows his positionin the trade at this time. This was improved in 1760,by the purchase of a moiety of the patent of law-printer,which he carried on in partnership with MissLintot, grand-daughter of Bernard Lintot. He diedin the following year, leaving funeral-rings to thirty-fourof his acquaintances, and adding in his will,“Had I given rings to all the ladies who havehonoured me with their correspondence, and whom Isincerely venerate for their amiable qualities, it would,even in this last solemn act, appear like ostentation.”It is impossible in treating of Richardson not to referto his vanity; but the love of praise was his onlyfault, and it has grown to us, like the foible of a lovedfriend, dearer than all his virtues.
It is not unpleasantto think that the ladies of that time, bythe way in which they petted, coaxed, and humouredhim, conferred an innocent pleasure upon the truestof all the delineators of their sex, except perhapsBalzac, who, if he knows it better, is more unfortunatein his knowledge. With all Richardson’s vanity, hedrew a portrait of himself that is not far removedfrom caricature.