The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12

during this series OF sketches that the book
makers have various ways OF doing b1si-
ness. That is, SOME d them make and az n
only the books of their own uublication !.
some DO not ac.ualsy make the books OF
tneir own publication, but have them made
Dy contract, some. 10 addition TO bookmsk-
ing. do large business in selling the books
OF other houses, and are called ssiobbers.v
and, while some do ICs r.tsil books AZ
al, other publishers DO a large trade
m, IA All KINDS OF DOCKS at retsil, and, ia addi-
Iion, import them from EpFOpe To comnefa
even with their own. Bot this Is the first
instance We hsvo yet noticed of book-mak-
ers VINO are such exclusively Welch
bigeiow n Co.-the University Press-haye
never been known as Pub lishers They hav
always confined their efforts to making
books, and have been Interested rs pnhlish
ers In very few OF the beautiful SPECIMENS
they have sent out. They make books TOR
others, and are not publishers. IL would be
Impossible to give list OF all the books
they have printed and bond, or of
the leading houses among the nab-
ilsners whose choice books thew
make. But few examples will show the
nature OF their work. Harris "Insects ~
Massach usetts" was one of the first of the
very hne books printed by Nalch. Bigelow
q 20. This was pub ished by the state of
niassach 0setts, and was a very costly un-
dertaking. Then followed Bonds Account
Oh the Great Comet, " (Of 1851. which was
printed in 1852, and published by the 90
servstory of harvard College. TYbe " mus
trated Catalogue of the Museum of Comnsr-
alive zoology" by Louis Agsssiz. wac
another elaborate and costly work Tick
nor's % Life or Prescott" published bv
ilcknor q Fields, was another of their
fine
SPECIMENS OF WORK.
We should not forget to remark here that
they printed for the same house the Atlantic
Monthly and oar Young Folks until they
were transferred TO other publishers, and
shere are very few reading people in New
England who were not familiar With the ex-
cellent Typography as well as the literary
merit of those magazines. A large part, of
the books of the same house under its late
title, j. r. Osgood Il Co., have been printed
there, including that new and attractive
series, the Little Classics" edited
SON., Blakemsn, Tavler & Co., j. b..
Ford A. Co., OF New York; s. c. Griges A
Co., of Chicago; Lee Il Shepard and Estes A
Lauriat, OF Boston, and many other leading
publishers, appear on the let of patrons of
the "UniversiJy." Those admirable school
books OF the first named firm come from
there In part. Their new geography, by
William Swinton,. is among the most strik-
ing productions in every particular ever
published in this country. The works of
ODaTles Ounner, WIN Zee n Sbepard's i'm
print; Beecber's Life of Christi
and Brysnt's Poetry and Song" pub
lished by j. B. Ford Sc SO. yGuizot's "History
of France" reprinted from the French
by Estes 40 Dsuriat, are among the recent
very successful works bat have issued from
the University press. oliver Optics Maya
zine is printed There, and they will also
print new and elegantly executed maea-
zine called The Wide Awake, published by
ID! Lothrop So Co., of Boston. Among the
works which the Press" has under con-
tract is a republication of new English
edition of Shakespeare in parts to be pub
lished by Estes q LsuriRt. It is said that
Vnls Will surpass any other
edition extant. Another is a book on
Harvard Observation-Disclosures, bio
graphical and'descriptive. This will be pro-
fusely illustrated with pictures of the build
1agss portraits of the professors and officers,
&c. Many of the pictures wiA be produced
by the new heliotype process. The SUBJ
scription price of this work will be from
$50 to $50 speciality of the SsUniversity''
is the prin ting of Greek books, tor which il
IS Justly celebrated. It has now in hand
four or five Greek books for publishers in
different parts of the country. For this
work it has fine collection of Greek types.