June 18. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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BEMUNEEATIONS OF AUTHORS. 



In that varied and interesting museum of anti- 

 quarian and literary curiosities, "N. & Q.," per- 

 haps a collection of the prices paid by booksellers 

 and publishers for works of interest and to authors 

 •of celebrity might find a corner. As a first con- 

 tribution towards such a collection, if approved of, 

 I send some Notes made some years ago, with the 

 authorities from which I copied them. With re- 



fard to those cited on the authority of " E.. Cham- 

 ers," I cannot now say from which of Messrs. 



Chambers's publications I extracted them, but 

 fancy it might have been the Cyclopcedia of En- 

 glish Literature. To any one disposed to swell 

 the list of the remunerations of authors, I would 

 suggest that Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature, 

 Boswell's Life of Johnson, Johnson's Lives of the 

 Poets, and other works of every-day handling, 

 would no doubt furnish many facts ; but all my 

 books being in the country, I have no means of 

 searching, and therefore send my Notes in the 

 fragmentary state in which I find them : — 



