Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-02

their engagements with publishers. These tire
mills produced 100000, 900 pounds OF paper
the past year, which immense supply was sold for
about S27 100000. A pound and a quarter OF rags
are required for 4 pound of paper, and 4OO,oVO, !OOO
pounds were therefore consumed this way last
year. The cost of manufacturing a twelve months
supply Of paper for the United States aside from
labor and rags is computed at S4O,9OO,OOO.
SOM idea of the stock required 20 launch q pop.
ular work may be gathered from Messrs. Long
mans Ledger. These gentlemen report that when
25 900 copies of Mr.. Maculay's two recent vol
umes went flying all abroad from Paternoster Row,
no less than 5000 reams of paper, 6 tons OF paste
board, and 1000 yards of calico were swallow
ed up.
Most of the large publishing houses now stereo-
type everything they intend to print. The electro
tipping process is largely employed, and an exper-
iment is now being made in Boston, of which we
shall hear more at some future time, which, if sue
cessful, will decrease tho expense of stereotyping
about one-third. We have lately heard that a
machine is in use in New York for type-settlng and
that the second volume of Mr.. Irvinng's Life OF
Washington was prepared for press by its aid.
Four hundred years ago, a single book of COS
siping fiction was sold before the palace gate, in
the French capital, for fifteen hundred dollars. The
same amount of matter contained in this expen-
sive volume the Harpers now supply for twenty
Eve cents. Costly books, however, are not out OF
fashion, for we nre all glad to know that seventeen
hundred subscribers have already been obtained
for Prof. Agassiz's splendid new enterprise.
The Harper establishment, the largest Of our
publishing houses, covers half an acre of ground.
If old Mr.. Caxton, who printed those stories OF the
Trojan war SO long ago, could follow the ex-Mayor
of New York in one of his morning rounds in
Franklin Square, he would be, to say the least, n
little surprised. lie would see in one room the
floor loaded with a weight of $50 tons Of presses.
The electrotyping process would puzzle him some
what; the drying and pressing process would
startle him the 5usle would make his head ache
and the stock-room would finish him quite.
An edition of Harper's Monthly Magazine con-
sists of 100000 copies. Few persons have any
idea how large q number this is applied to an
edition of q book. 1t is computed that if these
magazines were to rain down, and one man should
attempt to pick them up like chips, it would take
him o fortnight to pick up the copies of one single
number, supposing him to pick up one ever three
seconds, and to work ten hours q day.
The rapidity with which books are now man
u~factured is almost incredible. A complete copy
of one of Bulwer's novels, published across the
water in three volumes, and reproduced here in
one, was swept through the press in New York in
80 hours, and offered for sale smoking hot in the
in the streets. The fabulous ediice proposed by @
Yankee from Vermont no longer seems an impos
sibility. Build the establishment according tc
my plan, " said he 'drive a sheep in at one enc
four quarters of a lambs felt hat, a leather apron
and a quarto Bible"
The life OF an extensive publisher is of necessity
one of great labor, both of mind and body. lie
begins with the author and ends only with the pur
chaser, Between these two worthless there lies q
world of detail known only to the Trade" Sue
cess to the useful craft!