152 HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN DERBYSHIRE. q 
For this work the Author was adjudgea a prize of 25 guineas 
by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts ; it was re-issued 
with a new title-page in 1803, and is still held in estimation. 
The last work which he issued was— 
(3) A | MISCELLANEOUS SELECTION | OF | RELIGIOUS AND Morat | 
QUOTATIONS | 1n PROSE AND VERSE, | By SAMUEL DAVENPORT, 
Minister of Horsiey | quot. | DERBY: | PRINTED By J. DREWRY, — 
M,Dcc,xcilI. Demy 8vo. pp. 146. 
There is a list of subscribers to this work numbering nearly 350 
names of the principal inhabitants of the town and county of 
Derby, and the edition probably ran to 500 copies, yet my own is 
the only one I ever recollect seeing. 
This energetic printer died on Sept. 30th, 1794, in the 55th 
year of his age, and was, in turn, succeeded by his nephew, who, 
in the following issue of the Derby Mercury, adopted for the first 
time the title ‘‘ Editor,” which, in our own day, serves to distinguish 
conductors of newspapers and other compilations from the actual 
proprietors and publishers. 
** Derby, October 9th, 1794. 
The Editor of this paper takes the earliest opportunity of respect- 
fully informing the Public, that he has succeeded his late uncle (Mr. Drewry) 
in the business of printing, bookselling, stationery, &c. 
* * * * * 
Signed, John Drewry. 
The staple business carried on from this time, in conjunction 
with the newspaper, seems to have been the publication of chap- 
books* and school-books, many of which are embellished with 
comical cuts. Bewick engraved some of these; a mail-coach, 
the Borough Arms in the heading of the Derby Mercury, and some 
other insignificant blocks used in that newspaper were certainly 
the work of this great artist. 
* Some of these were coarsely humorous, and the printer does not seem to 
have been proud of them, the imprint running ‘‘ London: Printed for the 
Booksellers,” although, comparison with others known to have emanated from 
Drewry’s press, satisfies me that they were printed at Derby. I have several 
copies of Jack Horner, which have never been in circulation, from which the 
name of the printer has been designedly cut away. 
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