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Cobbin's Family Bible. 2nd morocco, Caskets of Poems, containing 6 vols. of hard grained. Thirty-eight Shillings and Sixpence. Forty-two Shillings. Cobbin's Family Bible. Turkey morocco. Lamb's Complete Works. 3 vols. Fifty Shillings. Hood's Complete Works. 10 vols. Fifty-two Shillings and Sixpence. 6 vols. Cobbin's Family Bible. Turkey morocco The Illustrated Christian Family Bible. extra. Nesfield's Sketches. Shaw's Sketches. Morocco. Seventy Shillings. Hood's Works. 10 vols. Half-morocco, or half-calf. Five Guineas. Windsor Castle. J. OGDEN AND CO., PRINTERS, 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C. WARD, LOCK, & CO.'S New Premises. Extract from "The Architect," March 3, 1877. "A large block of buildings has just been erected on land belonging to Earl De La Warr, in Dorset Street, Salisbury Square, and extending eastward almost to the boundary of the Bridewell Estate. That on the south side has been erected for Messrs. WARD, LOCK, & Co., the Publishers. The principal elevation in Dorset Street, opposite the east frontage of the Salisbury Hotel, is 64 feet high, and 55 feet long, and consists of a lofty ground-floor, and four stories above, surmounted by a central pediment. The elevation is in white Suffolk brick and Portland stone, elaborately carved and ornamented. The main entrance is in the centre of the ground-floor, and is upwards of six feet in width. From Portland stone piers on each side springs a bold projecting pediment, under which is a figure of Neptune as a key-stone. Four piers projecting beyond the general face of the elevation are carried up from the groundfloor to the top of the building, between the windows on each floor. The elevation also contains two massive Portland stone cornices, one immediately above the first-floor windows, and the other above the third floor. At the north-west angle there is another elevation, twelve feet in width, and containing some carved stonework. Over the entrance is a bust of Dr. Johnson, and at the top of the elevation a head of Minerva resting on of the Bridewell Estate and New Bridge Street, is 186 feet in length, and the same height as the Dorset Street frontage. In addition to the four stories above the ground-floor, this frontage has also dormers, and red brick bands are carried across the face of the elevation between each floor windows. There is also another entrance to the building in this frontage. The interior has been specially fitted up for Messrs. WARD, LOCK, & Co.'s business, and contains large rooms on each floor, extending from the Dorset Street frontage to the rear of the buildings, with several lifts from the ground to the upper floors. The architects are Messrs. SPALDING & KNIGHT, and the contractor is Mr. NIGHTINGALE. The cast-iron columns were furnished by Messrs. OAKLEY, of Bow, and the rest of the ironwork by Mr. SHAW. Mr. BENNETT is the clerk, and Mr. HAYLOCK foreman of works. The building covers a ground area of about 9,000 superficial feet." From "The Bookseller," September 4. Messrs. Ward and Lock, who, not many years ago, moved from a very modest house in Fleet Street to the large premises in Amen Corner, have again found it necessary to seek fresh and fuller accommodation. This time they have built for themselves. The interior requires a longer description than we can give our readers must take an opportunity of seeing it with their own eyes. It is, perhaps, the most complete establishment of the book trade in London. But it is not merely in connection with publishing and selling that it must be noticed; it is a book manufactory; books are therein written and edited, authors as well as clerks being employed. Perhaps the most noticeable feature throughout is the fact of the business being worked in departments-editorial, periodical, printing, advertising, cash and counting house, publication, wholesale, packing, &c. All are distinct-all are worked under several business some notion may be gleaned from the "New Trade Catalogue," which contains all that anyone starting in business can wish for in order to stock his shop. From "The Publishers' Circular," September 1. Messrs. Ward and Lock have removed to their new premises, specially erected in Salisbury Square and Dorset Street, Fleet Street. The principal elevation in Dorset Street, opposite the east frontage of the Salisbury Hotel, is 64 feet high, and 55 feet long, and contains a lofty ground floor, and four stories above, surmounted by a central pediment. The elevation is in white Suffolk brick and Portland stone, elaborately carved and ornamented. The main entrance is in the centre of the ground floor. From Portland stone piers on each side springs a bold projecting pediment, under which is a figure of Neptune as a key-stone. The north elevation, of the same height, is 186 feet in length, and fitted especially for a publisher's business. The premises are on a portion of the site of the old palace and prison of Bridewell. A few yards from the establishment Richardson, the novelist, was in business as a printer and publisher, and there he wrote his famous "Clarissa Harlowe" and "Pamela," the delight of the ladies of his age, and models of pure fietion, at a time when such works were too often rather the exception than the rule. |