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Authors should note that the Leadenhall Press, Ltd., cannot be responsible for the loss of MSS. by fire or otherwise. Duplicate copies should be retained. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1907. CONTENTS.-No. 206. NOTES:-59, Fleet Street, 441-Dodsley's Famous Collec- Arms of Mauritius - Embarkation of Cromwell and the most these premises were occupied in 1838 by Pigot & Co., publishers of directories, who had succeeded Daveson & Co., perfumers, presumably the first tenants after the rebuilding, circa 1806. Adams's business was not restricted to representing Bradshaw Mother' Richard Sands, Equestrian - Circulation of and his guides. London Newspapers in 1818-Henry Garnet, Jesuit he was responsible for a number of unAs a general publisher Hampden Prevented, 446-Whitehall Banqueting Hall important but interesting works, including John Sergeant - Spring Hill Park: Diversion of the 'Pocket Path, 447. Descriptive Guide to the QUERIES:-Abbacyrus: Aboukir: Passera, 447-"Passe. 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Blanchard, Adams, was the compiler of these guides and others; but I do not know if he was responsible for 'The Authentic History of the Gunpowder Treason,' also published from here. To the other enterprises of this Fleet Street publisher there is no occasion to refer in detail. The shop was a general emporium of travellers' requisites, from time-tables to toothbrush cases, and alpenstocks to insect powder. As a passport agency its reputation survived to the last. Adams's washing-books and phrase-books existed in current travel literature until recent years. Clement XI., 450. REPLIES:-Courvoisier, 450 Reindeer: its Spelling, Notes. FLEET STREET, No. 59. THE rebuilding of Fleet Street has recently caused the removal of this house and shop, which, although only a plain brick edifice hardly a hundred years old, had at least one interesting association worth recalling. When, in 1839, G. Bradshaw offered the first of his little books bound in green cloth and lettered Bradshaw's Railway TimeTables,' the distributing agent in London was Wyld, of Charing Cross; but soon after he appointed William J. Adams, then a bookseller and stationer at 59, Fleet Street, The business ultimately was taken over and always the printers of the Time-Tables. by Messrs. Blacklock, Bradshaw's partner, They discontinued publishing the guidewith Murray's or Baedeker's; and in the books that never successfully competed early eighties, entirely relinquishing the retail department, they sublet the front shop after clearing its very miscellaneous stock. Bradshaw's Time-Tables continued to be issued from here until December, 1905, when the office was removed to Surrey Street, and with it the staff, which included an old employee of Adams, a familiar figure in the book trade. The old premises remained unoccupied until the end, except for their temporary use during the General Election of 1906. So the whole story of No. 59 during the last century is a narrative of small matters; but to those who remember the old shop and the gloomy rooms leading back to Pleydell Court, even this meagre history will, perhaps, be of some interest. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 19, Hillmarton Road, N. |