The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-06 00:00:00

MINNIE OF PRINTED BOONS.

Mortis, 30 die Martii, 1813.
DAVIES GIDDY, io the Cbalr.

(CoNtimorct from our Puper of Tuesday

Mr. J. G. Cochrane:a Leatniitatioo—reenefested).
Are thole work► of small nespreasions %—Generally spee:-
lee, very small; sit tohle fro, lutetium tiny art not.
Hewn the iespressiun sells, what will he the areas' her of
vivre el copies u( Howie works?-11 will be exactly eleven
bows the trade prier el every entitle.
Where it doe* nut sell, state the smile! loss ?—Tie toss falls
he three ways; in the first place, it must operate ss en midi-
Oat to the mOl4 ed. the work ; secondly, it takes away eleven
perehnsera, of whom we eau generelly calculate on one-heir;
avail lastly, It takes away Irons the amount of the sale which
the remainder will produce.
The lint statement is, the coat of the work; I wish to
Mk the wiener, ifthe east of the work is out exactly the
worse, whether Ilw eleven rupee are givens away, or nut
No, coesielse it is silty *ay you will, the cost of paper
rioting, sad engraving Must be (skew; sod we csku hie
the ant of these *levee copies the came as of any other
eleven copies.
its the cave of works which are wet sold, the loss upuu the
copies On bend is precisely the sense, whether eleven copies
are gime*, she libraries, er am I—le the first instance we
certainly most &ergotism to thermos of the work.
It n certainly ea additiosal charge impose the books of the
publishers, but in peat sif feet, the shrifts away those deceit
copies If stick works is a. teas ; the tom is the tame to them,
whether they give the copies away, or not ?—1 canned
see that.
If a work does tent sell, It resales in !erne warehoesse?....
Thee we have the rentaimug copies, which will produce a
aortal% price.
The 'question stemma a case where there is not a sale
Rut in the enel wealiesp sell the remaining copies for souse-
thing °roller.
The sale epos the resetaisoler is greatly belle the original
peke ?—That depends open the member which remain ; if
there Is duly a mall swabse, we get a Merger price ; if a
lent, member, we get a lea prier; bet the lowest price is
infinitely higher than the price of *este paper.
II books Millie untold, mot only at the published price,
het you du not eleink limper In .ell these at a trade auction
prier, they remain in your warehouse ?—Certainly.
Ilectosse you think you have dually a beater chasice of
usakieg more of them, by minimising to sell them way at
the published price, than by to Iliac them at au anciion
pries?—Certainly; and we are not in the habit of turning
oat hooks .se that way, even after they have been iu our ware-
house many years.
Aud widle you beep them in your warehouse, you con-
sider the number of respite me onetime; as constiluting a
pert of the mane of your stock )—Certainly.
If on, deems copies lake« from that stuck diminishes the
value of your stock to that amount ?,,Clearly w.
HOW do you calculate the value of this dead muck; ism
what way du you estimate it ?—We generally calculaie it at
a et rlaiu value below what is called the sale price, whirl, is
the price ter the trade; we calculate it at he. per cent. fie e
per rent. helper, according to the work.
I thought you said, the fewer the copies which remained
of such works, the higher the price would ?—lf we 'urn
them out to a trade sale, of coarse the mailer the entinher
rensainiag, the better price we should be likely to get (or
them, hot a larger member remaining is ti reason fur girliig
a less price.
'Mere is no ad ailies's to be competed to the rust of a work,
whether the eleven copies go to the Univsnitics ter remain
nu hand ; your first cause of lops amalgamates in the third ?
—Nn.suppore one hundred end hay cupiro are pi third of a
work; if we give those (levee copies, whatever may be the
cost of them must he as addition to the cost of the (einem-
lite oat hawked sad tlirtymiee.
I Mist you have aheady slated, that you considered the
copies remaining in year warehouse to be of greater value
than VON mold expect to get for them at a bade auction
price?-e-Cartaiely,
That is the groaned of the rem ove?—eCertainly.
How does it follow that they sway out turn out waste
paper?—We eau always tars them out to waste paper, In-
stead of briniest them le a trade sale, and then we Wive
Ave per cent. duty, beside other mileases.
Is your cosemote experience, after having dispose.: of a
certain quantity at a trade sale, have you tint found the
value of the reermiaiag COOP !—Certainly; in
away itistaneee we sell a certain number sod retain the 11.51,
sad sometimes the iuduceuteot of a low price operates to the
sale of those copies, which, by ciring circulation to the
eruct, help. off the remainder ; there are uouty iitalaricra in
which a week has reinaiacti dormant • great number of
years, seed afterwards. sale has taken place.
Has the largest port of the hulas couteined in this list
sold !--It has, certainly, and they are iu the course of
selling.

What proportion of your books is usually suW Co. Waite
paper?-1 know of uuue.
There is always a sale?,—We sever value them exactly es
waste paper.
Best is there not a part of every impression that incomes
waste paper '--Certuiuly uut, of ilicse expcusisc WO. kb
Muse commonly you proceed slums the iumt 'plc that
*very impressive of every hook is sold, sooner or laistr!—
Yes. . .

Yoe are • publisher, and the works yon are entr,aze el iu
generally, arc woks of a small emprtastun!--Of bla:111 Ha-
pr. lesion and considerable I.XprolSe.
is lilt bale of I rtrelllslYr outksrertain or units
tr. unity noserlain„ particularly at thr 1111:St'lli t ueie.
Vrty much CUIIIIII,II to a ottani class of persous '-111 is
su
Ault clasp are prctey remstaiit and certain in the ir pow.
111.1:4C• ?••A's tte y e,aist mei, :emus% whom n,• may re t knee the
• - -a sale c leash takes off ^anri le fable osandwr of