The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-01-05

BOOK MAKING IN AnERIcA. ut II somewha alarm
lnE 70 KNOW thas the number OF hon.es nov sctu
Guiding periodicals. amounts 10 more than tbree s
hundred. about three. es.tourths Of these are en-
nasea ,h hnos.2n New York phadelphia and Bal
matt, Bunaio Auburn. Albany. Louisville Chicago
q. Louis. and few other places. There are more
publications OF these three hundred besides air or
seven thousand apothscaries grocers ana hard wars
dealers. who , connect literature with drugs. mo
| The best printing in America ID probably now
dore in Cambridge; the best cloth binding il -.
and Philsdeiphia. In these TWO latter styles We
are, as ct, long distance from Hayday the pride
of London His finish 10 supreme; there is nothing
Books have multiplied to such an extent in our
country that 1t now takes $50 paper mills, with 1000
engines 10 constant operation to supply the print
ers who work day and night, epdesvoripg to keep
their engagements with publishers. These treless
mills produced 270oo $50 pounds Of paper the past
$40 20 co., A pound and quarter of rags are re-
quired for pound OF paper, and $40 100 900 pounds
were therefore consamsd in this way last year
of paper for the United States. aside from labor
and rags. Ia computed at 81. .0O0000.
some idea Of to the stock re regnred azure to launch popn
Ledger. These gentlemen report that when rs 400
copies of Mr.. Maeaulay's two recent volumes went
flying all abroad from Paternoster Rev. no less
than 5000 reams OF paper. tons .pastsboard, and
70O0 yards of calico were swallowed up.
Most of the large publishing houses now stereo.
type everything they print The electrotypin
process is alresdy employed. and "a experiment. is
now being made in Boston. Of which we shall hear
more at SINE future day. which, if puccessful, will
third We have lately heard that a machine is in
use in New York for type-se,ting and tina. the Sc
cond volume of Mr.. frvings Life of Washington"
was prepared for the press by its aid
The rapidity with which books are now manufac-
the
three volumes, end reproduced here in one. was
swept through the press in New York in fty hours,
and offered for sale smoking hot in the streets. The
fabulous ediice pr aposed by n Yankee from Yer
N mt. no longer seems an impossibiiity. Build
n M DIM a0d to ny y said h
stely come out at the other fenr quarters Of lamb
| felt hat. leather apron and quarto bible
When Campbell, at literary festival toasted Bona
parte as friend of literature. hscanse he had
trade It is impo7 sible always for publisher to
decide rightly. All publishers naturally shy Of
new ms Of S poetry try for n.tsgcs, fsr they know BY
dead volume OF verse The sepulchre Of deceased
poetry in Mr.. Rurnham's churchysrd of old books,
Some Of the bes. books, which have afterwards
had the largest sales. have been in manuscript the
e th The nSy Of sns
rost every respectable house in London and was
pu'led by accident out OF publishers iron safe.
ter Of the bookseller who had himself forgotten it,
"Eothep" carried by its author. MIR Kipgtake to
twenty different houses till at last, in fit of deS-
pair, be gave the copyright away to an obscure
bookseller. paving The expenses of publication out
of his own pock et
Mr. Thackeray's VANITY Fair was rejected by
Mr. Coiburn for whose magazine il written, that
astu'e gentleman complaining that there was no in
terest in it. A New York publisher fought the wri-
ter of new popular b 'ok from Spring to Autumn,
aud length gave in from sheer inability to escape
imp2rtunity longer. After it was stereo'y ped and
before 1t was printed he offered every induc
to persuade brother bookseller to take it off his
hands. hut without success In despair, he at lsst
published II himself and the sale went up to 20 0G0
in one seasa B1st0a TrsaScrpt.