The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

naIITANNIA, NOV. 16, 1844.

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This pyramid of the publishing world comes out this year with
increased claims to public favour. But it is a pyramid only in its
vastness, its substance, and the immense labour employed to pet it
together. Instead of being the sepulchre of one man it is the hive
of a living million, a vast storehouse of facts, a library of commer-
cial instruction, what for the year the Times newspaper is for the
day—a publication that no other city of the world could or can
produce. There is no item of information which can by possibility
be supposed to be contained in a " Lon.lon Directory" that is not
to be found in this. The work is perfectand complete of its kind,
and as such we recommend it to the notice of the commercial
world, though, indeed, by this time its merits are so well known
that it needs little recommendation of ours.
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SPECTATOR, Nov. 16, 1644,
Although this immense volume is now, we believe, literally un.
rivalled, the absence of a competitor does not seem to have relimea
exertion or to have stopped extension. On the contrarY, the book
has grown with the growth of London, £44 we have the most corn.
plete exhibition of a great city that perhaps ever wgs made; in it,
three grand phases of " street Directory,' where you are ignorant
of the name but know it whet-. you see it—" Commercial," " Liv.,;,to
or " Official Directory," where, street unknown and name not re-
membered, you may hunt out a loan by his voeatinn—or in the re-
gular alphabetical list of persons it gives at a reference to
V/ indi-
vidual whose name is present, " Court," " Parliamentary,r,
Assuan/se," Postal," and other
" Banking," " Conveyance," `!
Directories for the distinct grades of society or important branches
in the business of life, render the exhibition still more corripiete.
A wonderful work is the " Post Oillca London Directory ;!. and,
so far as we have taken steps to test it, wonderfnllY correct.
JOHN BuLL, Nov. 23, 1844.
This " monster volume" is really a curiosity in its way. WhPi)
we turn over its two thousand closely-printed pages, and reflect
upon the enormous tnats of information which those pages contain
—information prepared witha degree of accuracy which je clPite
marvellous, together with its complete and coniiirehopsive chavacelir

How such a mass of information was ever brought together,
even in the 1,900 large pages of this volume, it is difficult to
imagine, even though we take into account that to effect it, has
tasked the ample resources of its owners for a series of years. The
result, however,_ is that.* commercial book of reference has been
produced worthy of the commercial capital of the world. The
high character of the Post Office Directory has given it a place in
every house of real business ; indeed, not to possess it is to be
without information to which every man in the United Kingdom
commercially employed should have ready access.
In the " Conveyance Directory" the matter connected with
Railways is full and recent. Within our space enumeration of the
various subjects' cannot be attempted, nor can such be requisite.
It can be only necessary of a work so universally known to say,
that the number of the Post Office London Directory for 1845 is
by far the best and most complete edition of the work which has
ever been produced. Higher praise it would be difficult to bestow.
The Map with which. the book is accompanied, entitled " Modern
London and its Environs," Is an entirely new one, and one of the
best plans of the Metropolis we have yet seen.
RAILWAY REGISTER, Dec. 1, 1944.
There are few men of business who do not take in the " Post Office
Directory," and to such, an enumeration of its contents is almost
valueless ; but for those who do not, it may be as well to
make some further remarks, arid the more so, as it only needs an
acquaintance with that work to be convinced of its intrinsic value
and great utility. There are some offices where the expenditure
for a new Directory is grudged on the ground that it is laying out
money for what they do not want, and they grub on without a
" Post Office Directory." or with only one of Pigot's or Robson's
superannuated Directories.
.A sharp, acute man of business would,
however, just as soon be persuaded to part with his inkstand as
with his " Post Office Dirtctory," for it not merely saves more
than its cost in time, but it is a valuable instrument for carrying
on business. As a means of ready reference it is valuable, as a
mans name, residence, and occupation are -ours !bond, and ft re.
ference to an old Directory will, show how long he has been en.
gaged in such pursuits", and furnish prima-facial evidence as to
respectability. This is so well understood in proper quarters, that
on such matters the " Post Office Directory" will be found quoted
in the leading articles of the Times, in Government and Parlia
military reports, and before the police and criminal courts.
Does the Times, with ready sagacity, detect a swilfdliiig
firm trying to prey on the community—the " Post
Office Directory" is immediately appealed to, to chow that
the pseudo Erns7 is not to be found enrolled in its columns.
It would appear inexplicable that a day register of this
kind should be found playing such an important part is the corn.
mercid community, if it were not well ascertained that its con-
ductors display , the Ireateit energy and accuracy in car-
rying oot their undertaking. The return of the circulation of
country banks pTetixeci to the "Ranking Directory" is the beat
which has yet appeared, and the only digest of the Population
Returns, applying to the metropolis, is the one in the "City Di.
reetory," which gives the population and income-tax of each parish
in the tnetropolis,ind a laborious"analysis of the occupations of the
population, deduced from the Census of 1941,

Were this work more carefully looked to in country places, the
swindling bill and other firms would find a little more difficulty in
carrying out their nefarious pursuits.

In conclusion, we say, When you want anything, always look
in the .lost Office Direatary,lt
ILLUSTRATED LONDoN NEWS, Nov. 23, 1844.
Twenty years have made a strange alteration in the bulk of this
almost indispensable Directory. Well do we remember the mean,
spare volume of other days, with its long lines of large type, and
its shabby sheepskin binding; in place of which we hare here a

ponderous large octavo volume, of some 1,900 pages, of two ■nd
three columns each, of small type, comprising " inter alia," direr_

tories, "Official," "Stieet," " Commercial," " Law." "Court,'
pArliaroontary," "Postal," "City," " Conveyance," " Bank

Ing"—thus combining ,the advantages of the old " Directory" with

.hose of the " Court Guide"—the east with the west—and corn,

prising all the information which the merchant or trader, or any
other London resident or visitor, can reasonably expect to find ;
and by excellent classification and arrangement, any portion of this
Information may be found Without difficulty. Among other addi.

inns, we perogiveilome Important and interesting statistics of Lon.

don—as the area in acres, population, and assessment, and a state-
ment from the Occupations' Abstract of the Census of 1841. The

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" Directory" Is, in fine, as completo as untiring industry and vi.
gilance can make it; for they have uniformly kept pace with the
increase of the number and extent of our metropolitan and national
establishments and interests.

W. Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell.court, Temple.bar
and all Booksellers In town and country.

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