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London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

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LOWEST, PRICED LONDON DIRECTORY.
Small Edition; Eight Shillings. Complete Edition, Twenty-
'four Shillings.
POST-OFFICE'LONDON DIRECTORY
For. 1542.

" The plaintiff's publication W 8,4 one of considerable bulk,
and most probably of great utility : and so the Vice Chan-
cellor-of England must have thought by granting the injnac-
tion ex parte, and continuing that proceeding upon motion made
to dissolve it."

Vide " Times" of 20th December, 1841.—Judgment of his
Honour Vice Chancellor Knight Bruce, confirming the None •
tion obtained- against the " Post-Office Almanac," for pirating
Post-Office Directory.".
The following Reviews of the. Complete Directory have al-
ready appeared :
Times, December 3, 1141.
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This useful matter-of-iact volume has just been published by
Messrs. Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell-eourt, Temple-bar,
and will no doubt be, as it ought to be, in the hands of
every merchant, banker; and tradesman in the country. It
is, independently of its utility, by which it is rendered indis-
pensable to every counting-house and shop, a curious sta-
tistical monument of the extent, importance, trade, and
wealth of the metropolis, and as such a document deserving
the attention even of persons who are not immediately in-
terested in commercial and business pursuits. The present
volume for 1842 contains some important new nutter, with
which the preceding volumes were not furnished—it has an im-
portant addition, " The official Directory," an alphabetical
list of all persons holding situations under the Crown, of all
persons hOlding situations in the East India House, in the
Bank of England, and in the various law, city offices, and all
other public offices. This addition is of itself enough to show
the great rains taken by the Proprietors to render the book
perfect. fhere is also some useful information given relative
to the " Money Order-office," to which, if the public would
pa), more attention than they have hitherto done, less would
be heard of the loss of money by the transmission of remittances
by post in the manner usually adopted. The number of stamps
is.ued to the various newspapers published throughout England
and Wales is given, together with the amount of stamp ditties
on advertisements paid by each paper respectively, and, indeed
a mass of information is brought together from which the best
informed may derive some increase of knowledge, and to
which the attention of the most ignorant and careless can
hardly be called in vain. As far as the cursory examination
can justify an opinion, and it is next to impossible to pay to
such a work as this the minute attention it deserves, it appears
to be compiled with indefatigable industry, extreme vigilance,
and an excellent judgment for arrangement.
Morning Chronicle, December 21, 1841.
Wehave had occasion to commend the extraordinarydiligence
and accuracy shown in getting up the " Post-office Directory"
for former years, and no less praise is due to the publication of
the present volume. It contains the same immense mass of
information relative to the metropolis, which renders the work
one of the most astonishing monuments of the greatness of
London that can well be conceived. This information appears
classified, distributed and arranged in a variety of ways so as
to make the facility of reference nearly perfect. The
corrections necessary from the changes of a year appear,
as far as it is possible to judge, to have been carefully made,
and it would be difficult to over-estimate the labour involved
in such corrections. We recommend it to the favourable consi
deration of the public ; and, in fact, it must be regarded as indis-
pensable in every house or office where business is trans-
acted. To those, if there be any, who have not seen it, it v. IA
convey the best notion of the variety of its contents to say, that
the single volume of 1,500 pages contains a Streets' Directory
—Trades' Directory—Law Directory—C.ty—Parliamentary—
Courts—Postage—Banking—and Official and Conveyance
Directories—each a large work, and complete in itself; though
the whole are requisite to a publication which professes to be a
Directory for London.

Morning Herald, Noy. 30, 1841.
This is a most complete and extremely useful work. It em-
braces every point of interest in and near the metropolis itat
aan affect the wants of the community at large, and is service-
able to all classes of society. Under one general head, it con-
tains a series of Directories, in which are enumerated all the
trades, streets, names, official designations, Parliamentary,
legal, banking, and Post-office references, that are in daily re-
quisition ; and, while it is of the most ample tlimens'ons (ex-
tending over 1,500 pages) is accurate in the minutest particu•
lars. No public office or mercantile house should, in fact, be
without it.