Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-05-31
sey- j. B. LlrprNcorr & Co.-It is u

nattcr Of congratulation for Philadelphia,
bat, notwithstanding the financial storms
which have recently shaken some of our
commercial houses, the great publishing
irm of j. B. Lippincott X Go. possesses
iot only the means, but the courage, to
erect o palace of trade in Market street.
The situation is above Seventh, on the site
If the old "White Hall Hotel" and the
building will extond to Filbort street, q
itretoh Of 356 feet, with marble front on
Market street, near fifty feet wide. Here
.he building will be five stories high, with
placements. The Filbert street portion will
ba "a feet wide, and six stories high. The
balesrooms, for retail as we'll as wholesale
trade will be suitably fitted up with simple
elegance. Adjoining the warehouse in the
rear, and communicating with it, viii be a
fire e.proof building, one hundred and fifty
feet long, for printing Offices and bindcry.
The rooms will be designed for, and adap.
ted to, the various arts connected with the
manufacture of books. Mr.. Samuel S.oan
is the architect.
The business OF u, Lippincott and Co.,
at present carried on in % and 2i North
Fourth street, is of two,fold character.
, AS furnishing booksellers, supplying books
and stationary to 5000 wholesale cores
. pondents, they do larger trade than any
other house in the Uuited States. As
publishers, they are also very extensive. -
Their printing Office, containing thirteen
presses, is now in North Fifth street.
D., There, too, is one of their binderies, anoth.
or being in North Fourth street. Under
the arrangements Of the new building,
which will be completed during the present
season, the various processes Of making and
p publishing books will be all performed
4 under one ROOF.
v Lippincott & Co. are agents for, and
, co publishers Of, the numerous and valua.
bic works Of A e. G.. Black and w. & r.
, Chambers Edinburg. They are now SIM
ultancously bringing out Chambers ENJOY
,clopedia and The Book of Days, publish
= Ecations Of admitted value and reliability
. Their own s,crcotypes have cost over $500
i U00,-a vast sum to be sunk in such stock
However, they have none but selling works
: in this position,
Among the standard works published BY
. Lippincott Il Co., we may mention the
library-edt;on Of Bulwers novels School
crafts Indian and Exploration books five
70 editions Of SCOTS novels; the whole O.
; Prescotts valuable historical writings il
10 Is volumes $40 ; Wcbstcr's series Of Die
~ tionaries,. and Lippincotts PronuncnG
Gazetteer, which, by the way, supplies
much local information to reporters and
. war correspondents, who rarely are SO JUS
as to acknowledged it. Historical ant
Juvenile. as well as Law and Medica
"a. works, are Oh their list. In tho medica
b department may particularly be mentioned
b. such authors as Beck, Guthrie, Luidy anC
ID Wood. During the last twelve months
they have largely issued military books
= original AID translated, to meet the popu
- lar demand
. Cassin's Ornithological works, ant
% Sloan's various treatie, on Architecture arr
a. among these publications, as well as I
( splendid comprehensive Commentary OF
l the Bible, in imperial octave, and the En-,
j. cyclopedia Of Religious knowledge. Lip
r pincott's large and valuable series of schoo
D books is known all over the United State
In Bibles aud Prayer Books, of all size
and at ali prices, this house makes thu
largest sales in America.
10 the friends Of a gentleman, whGst
death we recorded yesterday, it may bt
interesting to know that among Lippin
colts announcements Of works in the pres
is tho following "Reccollections, Histori
e. cal, Political, Biographical, and social, o.
Charles j. lngersoll BY experience, pre-
senting Annals, with Portraitures of Per
sonages in this Country, from Gents arri
val in 1892 to the Purchase of Louisian;
an 1903; with which increase Of the origi
nal United States, many of their grea
events, physical and constitutional, are
supposed to be connected. 2 vols octave
Messrs. Lippincot's Photograph Album
the varieties aud Manufacture of which W,
recently described, are among the yer,
best made. They have entered largel.