Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-18

booksellers, who reside at Leipsie, max
up their clients orders, and strike casl
balances from time to time. There wer'
in this place in 1860, 50 commissioners
representing 2275s firms Of differen
places. England, however, keeps up the
trade sale custom, at the q Albion sales.
Only the London and Westminster
book sellers are allowed to attend, and
the auction is always preceded by trade
dinner. As many as 10000 copies o.
one work have been sold at one Of these
sales. ~
The greatest circulation ever attained
By an American book vas that Of UaeL
Toms Cabin, Of which nearly 400, ,00C
copies have been sold. School books
however, must be excepted, for of Heb'
ster's Spelling Book no less THAI
35, 900, 900 copies have been sold-the
largest run obtained anywhere By any
book-whiIe his dictionaries have had
an aggregate sale Of two millions copies
In music books, Lowell Mason's Handel
q Haydn Collection reached Its fortieth
edition, and Carnsiad ISdera circulated
about half million. Almost $500 vol
umes are now annually published in the
United States.
The first book issued in what were to
be the United States and Indeed North
America Was the Bay Psalm Book, in
1640. from the press at Cambridge, Mass.
VIM. Bradford issued an almanac from
his press near Philadelphia, in 1885,
which was the first book in the middle
colonies. Only TIVE copies of this are
known to be extant They contain a
curious address Of the printer to the
reader" with his advertisement. a
The first press in France was SET up
at Boulogne in 1862; Paris was favored
in 1853, Rome in 1466, London in 1874.
In 1880 they had permeated as far as
Iceland. By 1900, 22O towns in Europe
had printing presses. In 1900 there
we're $50 printers, and 10000 different
works had at that time been issued from
the press. Lima, Peru, has the glory of
introducing the press into this continent
in 1890. Mexico had one in 1000,
and in 1858 Rev. Jesse Glover, and
some Amsterdam gentlemen furnished a
press to Cambridge, Mass.
The King Chan, or Court transcripts
of China, known in Europe as the Peking
Gazette, is some centuries old, in manu-
script The earliest print of news was a
German affair of 1895, now in the library
of the University of Leipsic. The Brit
ish Museum contains one of the Gazetsds
of Venice Of 1870, which was the first
printed one and probably the first printed
periodical. In England the earliest thing
of the kind was the Weekly Net0s from
HGlis, Gsrmdnie, etc, published in 1922.
The first advertisement was inserted in
London paper of 1648, and Parlia-
mentary reporting had its origin in l64l.
The Mercurius Librdrigs of 1880 was
the first literary paper.
In the year when Julius began bis
letters in the Public Adrertiser, and did
much to increase the influence and i'm
portanee of journalism, ten millions
copies of papers were circulated IN Eng
land. In 1885 John Walton commenced
the publication of the Daily CHiUersal
Register, to which title, on New Year 6
Day of 1888, was added the word Times.
At the beginning of this century its
circulation amounted only to thousand
copies. January 29, 1929, it became an
eight page sheet, and since that time has
increased in power-especlally during
the Crimean excitement-untilits present
circulation is over sixty thousand. In
1915 there were PSI journals in the three
kingdoms; in 1888, 400; in 1860 Eng
land had about 600, Scotland, 100, and
ireland, 100.
The state paper Office in London holds
a four-page qusrto sheet lone page blank
printed By Richard Pierce and published
by Benjamin Harris, dated Boston, Sept.
25, 1880, which was probably the first
newspaper published in this country.
No number two ever appeared, and the
first regular journal was the Boston Ne,cs
Letter, half-sheet, II inches by s, and
with two columns to the page, which
made its debut, Monday, April "a, 1904.
The next then was the Boston Gazette.
In this city Gov. Fletcher caused the
reprint of a certain London Gazette in
1890, but William Bradford, who removed
from Pennsylvania, started the first reg
ular journal, the Neg York Gazette,
October 16, 1725.
In 1854, there were tour papers in
Boston, two here, two in Philadelphia,
and one in Virginia. At the beginning
of the Revolution, there were thirty
seven; at the beginning Of the century
200, of which seventeen were dailies,
seven tri-weeklies, thirty twice week,
and 146 weeklies. In 1910, there were
359, and in 1880 about a thousand in
1910, 1881, in 1850, 2800, of which 254
we're daihes with an average circulation
of 1900 Of the 4057 periodicals in the
country in 1860, 3243 were political, 29S
literary, 277 religious, and 234 of fmiscel-
laneous character. The totaheirculation
was 927, ,951, ,548-more than half being
from New York, Pennsylvania, and Mas
saehusetts-which was at the rate Of
81 IL copies for each white person in
the United States.
This includes papers in the German,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Welsh, Swedish,
Croatisn, Chinese, and other Languages.
We have in this city papers in German,
French, Spanish, and Italian. Of our
thirteen morning and nine evening dailies,
the Conmercidl Advertiser is the oldest,
dating from 1797 Then comes the
Post, in 1901. The San was founded in
1888, the Herald II 1885, the Tribune
in 1871, the Times in 1850, the World
in 1860. In 1885 the circulation Of
dailies amounted to only 10000 copies,
in 1860 it had increased to over 300, 900
Statements of individual circulation are
seldom reliable. The presses made BY
Hoe.had, for some time, an index attached
to them BIZ which the exact number Of
copies printed could be told, but this
showed too exactly, and it was
either taken of or showed ahead at the
by the pressman. Mr.. Rowells
is that only one publisher IN
FIVE will tell the truth about his circula
ton.
tits curious to note the advance Of
civilization in a newspaper way. We
have in our newspaper collection some
AZ gbasa old ionrnaIs af the beginning