The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-26 00:00:00

GLOBE, Jai. 17, 1846

It is only necessary to say of this established work, that it sustains
the high reputation for accuracy and comprehensiveness which
the former volumes, in Mr. Kelly's hands, at once obtained for it.
In fact, to all Loudon residents this annual has been an indispens-
able volume. In the present year several improvements have been
added.

TIMES, January 9,.1846.

This volume unlike many others, as it increase's in bulk, Increases
correspondently in value ; thus every succeeding edition is more
valuable than its predecessors, and the book of 1846 contains more
information than the book of 1845. The volume for the current
year surpasses anything of a similar kind that has ever been offered
to the public as a guide-book to the names, occupations, professions,
and habitations of the hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of
London, or that has ever yet been issued from the press. Li it,
whoever has a "local habitation and a name" is noted down—that
is, if he be a housekeeper, an office-keeper, or the proprietor or
keeper of anything beyond a furnished lodging or the humble

cupant of an attic. There is an " Official Directory," a " Street
Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a
" Court Directory," a !I_l!arlianaeatary Direetory,e a- "-Pbstai Di-
TictorY," a " City )3i-rectory," a " Conveyance Directory," a
" Banking Direchiry," and a mass of other matter, explanatory of
many things whisli are nece'sary to be known, and which are net to
be found collected together and easily accessible in any other volume.
This is the 47th annual publication of the work, which is now so fully
established in puhlic estimation, for the accuracy and multi-
plicity of its intelligence, requisite fir every class and for every
day, that to be without it is almost an imputation on the common
sense of all persons connected with the trade of London or the
common business of life.
MORNING HERALD, December 27, 1845.
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This excellent work, the 47th edition of which has just reached us,
keeps pace with the commercial requirements of the times. The
"Post Office Directory" of some twelve years since, and the "Post
Office Directory" for the coming year present a remarkable contrast.
Then it was confined to a meagre list of names, comprised within a
circle of two or three miles, and might have been put very conveniently
into one's coat pocket. Year after year it has increased in size, and
added various and valuable stores of information to its columns; its
hundreds of pages have grown into thousands, and it now embraces
the metropolis and its suburbs, from north to south, east and west,
and comprises within its voluminous pages of information (now
absolutely indispensable to the merchant and tradesman) an
" Official Directory," a " Street Directory," a " Commercial
Directors," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a "Court
Directory," a " Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory,"
a " City Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," a " Banking
Directory," and a variety of other copious lists of information,
the mere transcription of which would occupy considerable time.
Its list of "Provincial Inns" extends over 31 pages of three columns
eack ; its " Post Office London Official Directory" over 48 pages,
twenty-eight of which are of four and twenty of two columns each ;
its " Street Directory" 472 pages of th-ee columns each ; its
" Commercial and Professional Directory " 504 pages of two colnmns
each ; its " Trade Directory " 623 pages of three columns each; its
" Law Directory " 64 pages ; " Court Directory " 110 pages ;
" Parliamentary Directory " 36 pages ; " Postal Directory " (most
elaborately compiled) 67 pages, &c. This portion of the work has
been much enlarged and improved. It now supplies us with the
hour of delivery of.the London letters at each town and village in
the United Kingdom at which there is a Post-office or Receiving-
house, and the time at which the letter-box for London closes at
each place; also the distance of each from the post town through
which the London letters are transmitted. We also observe that the
valuable Map of London, which has for some years past accompanied
the volume, and which has been frequently much improved, is ren •
dered still more valuable in the present edition. The names of each
street are most distinctly printed, and we hesitate not to state that
it is one of the best Maps of London extant. The Work is printed
in a clear bold type. We can scarcely think it requires special re-
commendation, for no man who really has business to transact can
well do without it.