The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-31 00:00:00

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11 bad e% are given wit ..f 100, we coliceive it in lie 11 per

D• you ineltide ileyiatircatintale, the ploportion oPtaxes,
lioner.rent, &c. *Weis make up dis piopurkitiu of your
itaato—Cetinitily nut.
IVhether Is. estimating the cost of tiring away she 11
COpleg, do.you pregame, if out give.' away, Hwy wr0.14 hr
.14.1?-111mo we agree to puldialt, we calcseate ter. y
will be .old: but titifurimiately, 611 Itooksrllrds rim rely
great riak. many f..tpiently heiui kft uw baud for yenta, ate
at lasi aold for isas:e paper.
In those case.., can die delivery of the 11 roplea l.e any
lost wlhitevci• 1.. the honked!' r t—The ii casusa helot .o.li-
verril s heti published, we air in hopes of fallinC the wi°le
copies; after the t xpimiiou of a few year-. they liCeullit
waale paper; but it is many 'cola haute that rail be deter-
mined.
%Virzi •,1 i. innWn that row most aire avr,o; t 1 ropka,
would vou not paint a tattPrirott rt,.eti,er to ince. tit.' it,
ara1..1,%1r. many*, as at should pay Cos eleven die .speinie
of printing 2SO copies.
Why. t--finch bang the es"Vott of the primers ks Lotidlitt,
magi *Wit Les few rewrirsl 1.1401411.41116...m1iga •
Call you only. adjual by issitss-,:is or 'nit h. bad copies, and
Po ti.• !--Inslattcrs are, sheie we pi int less digt,!! to save
the athlit • I irkprizaa or paper, but nut Cluny; suit then se
pay for Slit additional 250 printing
You hare loafed that the pritsciital littedett is in bm.ka uu
which less thaw 250 copies air 1 rinlcd ; hitt in all such nurks
is Shire any additional expense to tin printer. II) the 11 CIL
pies t—Cettainly nut ; mod. r 2511 Ihr printlii; is lite msitte:
hot of plates, and thaw. plitit's I .0011111etS, the extents of the
colouring, and also the ii.p.orr 01 the paper.

Yam having stated that a material lota 0111,e hi illf• glielsli.li-
(Tß hunt the early .kli%r.y of the II copit 1.; ssf..pi-
Ilion float a mute late ils•livei .if not
einiaiderablv relieve the puhhsh,a. truni the lin ussrs
HMI lIIISA V*ll.oo, in your upinsiso, 'hey HI iiiruriit • It 4:41:!—It
itineli depundsi on the time of Ilii•jsuls!nlinsr. I a ill 'wane,.
one honk. Myanre. A hunt 1.1-v. is y. Hr.{ ;MC*• we
give 0)00 gni Willi W the Emit Con,i,w;y tm Il.r r.•pv The
batik ClAt um 'scar 4,000 guinea, was I.rbti.hr d ;
this mom. nt we have lust riot hack ilst• cps
lutists ail of .ix guineas, at a hieli ths
half the illllllllillatta WI blind, se. 1.11/bild tor glad lu sell fur
three animas.

How I 1111141 ihal iurnetvettienre I.e ilffrord by 11:e delivery
of the 11 copies at w laiur lir au to. I..,ia.(l!—iliqa
the sale of the tt holt intim SAiOll, wr Fla itl. .ce valued at
six guineas.

I 1 hrl,, now aicertained that 11 copies as eto lie delay'', eil
as some p. rind, how is the inconvenience lora& din the
last pourer strcetell by a haler or earlier deliver) ?—lf
the 11 copies are to be delivered, it will nut make any dJlcr•
Cure.

To what wotks does that relate )—To works that hat•c
nut a speedy fitlC j I dna scren ytara st fit a‘ciagr to urea-
Isia the sole.

In works that have a speedy only, iiia”nueh as the eleven
copies that are on all worts to be delict red, w hat 1 frt et ea,
she time of dehvery.hase in the ioruuveui.•nce Wainett
of I—The hiss in wurks that have a speedy LAIC, by actively
early, would be the exact price at which they would be
otherwise suit/.

Then the time of the delivery dory not effect, in your
judgmetil. the intermit of the iittlitiiherr oil the works of
speally Nth.. it being only affected by the vJueof the cleveat
?..-.After poblislivil. it too only afflict no to the .11111 C
of the copier delivered; but pm vino,' to the public:ditto,
it mould be a cuurideratimi whither ye would publish it 4

Do you mean to Fay, that thedelivery of the e:rvee ropit
vtinebt form a consideration previoor to the iletermitortion of
the publication; or that the time when /lour copies are to
he delivered. would form an objection to the inu?—
The lime will not; but the delivery would, ati l have become
stated.

Whitt do yon call a mail timber of a work ?—Five hun-
dred copies and
What will !relieve the proprietors of books, its ,nor
(turn the inconvenitore comiiptaio.it of? —lrctlitetng
the minds., of copies to be dcliveilA ; peeving a cal-trio pro.
portion of their first cost ; out being obliged to ...end the
cl,reti copies unless we wish to scrui it the copyright ; w lit re
two psprr. are printed, that on which the largest number is
printed; books not to be sent ahoy.. a metros r.due, and
a hen the impression dues slut exceed Tin nut in be sent;
but the principal would be, that or pat toe a unc-tiiird rn•
tote-f. mirth of the price, would prevent books bi tug demand-
ed that are not wanted.

Will making these public bodies pay one-tuitr►h of the
sellio.g price of the wutk remove dm apiirrhunsion that you
euterhain„ that works of • certain destriptiun will out be
publislectl?-1 believe it would.
Cupid you nut indemnify yourself by ineressing the price
of each ropy. on the principle of the talrul itinn slelivered by
you to the Cunsmattce think lint. The delivery of the
rdeer• copies its small numbers would ps‘vilit she hunk be-
ing undertakes& at oil; the expeme incresiseti would
check the sale, sod would not indemnify us if that addition
was put on.

.Iferewrii, 24 die Marlit, 1813.
DAVIES GIDDY, Esq. in the Chair.

r. Thomas Norton Longman. called in, and eraselied.
Are you a bookseller and publisher
What will br the grievance to you, In eive eleven copies
of all works of which you sell all )our edit 11.11 ?—The grit r.
liner, in that ease, ce►tainly would he lir. lull price of 11w
whole eleven copice; between the posbli.hrr and the retail
buoksrllir it would be the whole tetsil [micro( each copy.

What troul•1 he the grievance on those which ilo out sril ?
—;live grievance on those that do. not well Would Ise the
price which they might lie Sold for at a bookseller's trade
sale.
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How many years do you Waft before you sell for waste
river ?—That is perfectly uncertain, the difference is the
amine of course is considerable; it is peifectly Uncertain
what the remainder atm ithprest ion may sell fur at nu auc-
tion, but always above waste paper price; frespleully veiy
near to the full bade price.
It depends upon the character of the boot: ?—Peritsetly .o.
It is your custom, when you find works do not sell puh-
Crly, to sell them by auction among yourselves ?—Certainly,
that is the mode adopted.
Do its. works sell after lying some years without a de-
mand ?—sThey sometimes ; after the iespilar sak may be
found to be over, mime 1:10,!ic ciietislistance or other 1,. iuia
a won k into demand again ; fur inataiice, I might state,
a hen the French invaded Egypt, hooka of travels in E;:s.pt
sold immediately, although they hail lainalorinant for mail
yearn; a particular tiacumstanct, *MA brines A subject
into 510th..., creates a demand fur a work a had nut sold
fur a of time before.
the delivery of eleven coPiel maleri.illy intrude
upon Ilse profiia of small editions,-11 would he more heavy
*pun sum!! editions then large ours; the percentage would
be larger npou 260 copies than upon 1,000; health's un slued
editions there Is * more certain sate, they are firepiently
all sielaieribril fur, in Omar cases it may be luuked fur admit
the whole prier of the eleven copies.
it in ithy came present th* aniline or propeiethe
fram leceiviug any prnfit 'spun !mall relitions of expmsire
wurks!-- It might so happen; I abauld think it Would ni.t
often happen ; but I know it dots vi. sonil9itnes. I heard
Mr. Nichols, the printer, 4110 E, Within these few days,
that of his winks he has printed tin more than 250
(dial are valuable and resPeciable mita of their 1,11.4`, and
this b. kiss caleolmed that the trade salt price should pay
him his eue•.a...s without even a view to profit.
ge.:eie's a dark fi iitideilsksr. w put/lie:7e? lots