New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-17
THE BOOK TRADE
vrRs AND PUBLISHING IN NETWORK

,mrloyed 10 tie mspuiacure OF BOOKS -Four oeb'urs ~
tie prcdreticn Of copy Of tie Bible demanded ths Goa
tpua ator Of expert coPyist seven" years bui TO dAF
.Bib ma, be rrodueed in hall al hour Hundreds Of
;uu,,n.n mecl anes Ia ihis city have nov private l.
for whh before the dsys of Faust ana Gatonoers
would have battered their pAsces and donn oas
There prtseGvod indeed left,r in which nooIenan
~ bt priod crsvty debates tie question whether be VIII
r.su ror.on OF his territories poSess hide OF copy
~ the works of Virg-pot half valuable, probably a.
one OF Artbons edition whch the Hrpe's will sell to'
,.lt, ,,rts OF this aston shng revolution very m1cn
r. hen omtlsLed in New York, aud during the hVes
Of orr pr,.e1t race Of publishers When james Harper
ard Thurow ed WORK cd together the Office oJohal
s.vucur hrty CT fory years sgo only Two hunlel anu
fffy u1rfsors from single form coad DC p'oduoeu "a
- b.r, I'm, the adams Press in few years miie It
r,sbie 70 rescb thousand the double cy nueT NAP'c''
N 1870 three III, rssnd and the splepdd invention OF
Mr. Hoe in Is47 full tseye thousand IN the same le
s.b lour times the SIZE Of those worked of by the chryi
Il. Nsyor sud State Printer 10 the first quarter oil me
e,uury col siderable time Ella ped after the INVENTION
Of III art before the annual rodsef'oH 81 %" me fTS
Ofos ~ tie sorid oqused in amount the present GiHy
proeu ton Of Tux TRIBUNE OH and experiments are
in proer,ss viii cou mpla'e si further aud yer! I'm
pcriant advances IN the business
TIE great spring Trace Sal, OF BOOKS no" gong on
Al The Trade sale Rooms in Psrs R)S aad an uau'ual
uumbtr Of BOoksel,rs pres Mt from all pare oil th'
,ou1try We avail ourselves Of the opportunity 10 give
short account of the principal New York puhlhoc hole'
which supply larger proportion nan those OF an! o'heT
city Of the Intellectual toad of the world
The old st h. use in the City is that OF STANFORD
SwoEps which has long been Known in broadway neT
Tr piy Church Tie firm original! composed OF |
& Swords, tou@Oi British officer IN the ola French
War ONE Of tlem We leve, was born in Fort Ic"a'
caoea while it royal fortress Deprived OF tarr
father at an early age, the 40 sons harmed the printing
bures and ON the c,ose OF the Revo uion established
tb.u,eiys a. priut.rs booksellers and publishers at No
q Crown st wherr among their earliest publ aons they
is,ved in 1910 the fr number of Tie Nr York Mg1sias
Or Lifetarv RCyosiory George Washington, President
of IN. United states he heal OF tue ut OF suo
scrb.rs and TIE of the Heads OF Departments ana
the ch ler-cns connected With the Governmen followed
Tts msgszne war continued twelve Years and sets "t
are TOW 80 rare as 10 command very high price Anthony
Bl.ecler Dr. Eihu ii Smith BrOcSd-n Brown William
Dunlap josiah ogden Hoffman smes Kent and several
ofes vrote in most every uumoer Subsequently th'y
issu.d lie Monthly Magasme and AmercaA Rr'eT' re
Md,cql R,Uonloyg EDITED first by Drs Mtcht and Mer
and the later volumes by DR. Felix Pascll' and half
dozen Magazines and Reve~s or ss under the di-
reoton and p.r nsge OF The Episcopal Church The od
tablshent Of Messrs SwoId No 100 Pearls -, for
long time a Of literary exchange "a he store o. i'S
nor Reed 4 Fields in Boston snow Bishops Seabury and
Moore Dr samuel Miller DR. Linn, DR. Abee DR. Bo"den'
pr Stanford he esneble father OF the head OF he present
house John PntaId and nearly al the cot'mPocay put
losoYhs artists and OF letters in town were ia the
habit 81 mcetrg at swords which ~as one of the
recognized characteristic and indispensable NeF
York institutions E-rly 10 ife the late Bishop Hobart
became ysry intimate With the brothers and It was per
haps owing in large degree their friendship that The
firm gradually abandoned thu fields Of Hes lees and
medicine to devote themselves almos, exclusively to theo
logical publications Mr. james Swords for thirty wears
President Of the Washington Insuran Company no 70
tired from the publishing business IN 1899 and died isi
On his from the hcuse its style became swords
Stanford & Co whH continued until The decease OF the
senior partner Mr. Thomas Swords in 1913. Hi- son. Mr.
James Swords then eceeded and the firm OF Stanford
Swords has since been known through all the country
the worthy OF the urst and most emnn, Eco
pal Publishing house in America The list OF their works
is large Among the authors for whom they have pub
shtd have been nearly oil the most distinguished scholars
in the American branch of the Episcopal church and they
have acquired by the singular correctness and beauty OF
their editions almost monopoly III II costly Books
of Common Prayer Stanford & Swords this week
from their old stand No 1877 Broadway No 637 Broad
way where they open Of the most spacious and beau
full stores in the City.
The house Of RoE LOCKWOOD 4 Son No. All broadway,
was founded by Mr Lambert Lockwood who had previ
ously been engaged in the book business in Bridgeport
Conn and his On Frederick lockwood under the style OF
l. & + lockwood about the year 1916, the affairs bsng
conducted by the junior partner Mr. Roe lockwood who
had been clerk With his father at Bridgeport cams to
New York in 1890 and the year took his father plaza
in the business the firm being changed to F. Il X Lock
wood His brother Frederick dying in 1924 and his father
in 1925 he continued the busn,s alone until 1874 when
he took into partnership his SON. Mr. George Lockwood
which there has been change in the style of
the house The Messr Lock wood publish chiefly French.
Spanish German and Italian school books, with few in
the Epglsh language and they do very large busnes
in the importation Of Pars and other editions OF works In
foreign languages in which they trade with Southern and
Western America
In the department Of Law the leading publishing house
in this country is that of BANKS GOULD & Co, No IA
Nassau capital Of probably $1,000 900 is invested in
their business and they cObfne themselves exclusively
TO the publication of legal works their collection comprises
much that is rare and curious vel, valuable They
import largely from Europe bu: their activity chiefly
in the department of English and American law in which
they e1ceed by any house in the world Theirs is
the Oldest law publishing firm IN the United Sta e. IL was
established in 1870 and fret composed of William
Gould David Banks and Stephen Gould During the War
Of 1912 they were famiiarly and loosely known as
'Scarcty Plenty aud Scarcity" The concern ha, always
had two large houses-one in New York and the other ia
Albany 1t was originally and for many yesrS known
the firm of Gould. Banks s. Gould, New York. and William
Gould & Co, Albany In 1929 William Gould associ.ted
with him at Albany Anthony Gould. That branch Of the
concern then under the style Of Vim. g. A Gould &
Co In 1851 Mr. Banks took two Of his David and
Charles into the partnership Since then the firm mas
been BsDks Gould Co York, and Gould, Banks &
Co. Albany Besides their large stock OF books. they have
an immense amount invested in Stereotype ps'es com
prsng all the Law Reports Of the STATE Of New Yors and