NOTES ON OLD HELPER AND OLD BELPER BOOKS. ^ 



portrait of the amiable African. The only copy known to the 

 writer is in the collection of the late Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt, 

 purchased and presented by the Duke of Devonshire to Derby. 



At this period, Samuel Mason, the printer, occupied the shop 

 at the corner of Queen Street, and the New Road', now in the 

 occupation of Mr. Joseph Pegg. In the year 1811, he printed a 

 more pretentious and important work, "A | New | Historical and 

 Descriptive | View | of | Derbyshire, | from the | remotest period 

 to the present time, | by the Rev. D. P. Davies, ^] in two 

 volumes. | Antiquam exquirite matrem — Virgil. | Belper, | Printed 

 and Published by and for 8. Mason ; | Sold also by Drury, 

 Wilkins, Pritchard, and Stenson, Derby; Bradley, and Ford, 

 Chesterfield ; Parkes, Ashbourn ; Cotes, Wirksworth ; Dunn, 

 Nottingham ; Gales, Sheffield ; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 

 and Brown, Paternoster Row, and B. Crosby & Co., Stationers, 

 Court, London; 181 1." Neither the type nor the paper are 

 of the very best, yet the book is a remarkable monument of local 

 skill and patience. It was issued at the price of sixteen shillings. 

 It is neatly dedicated to the Rev. David Peter, Tutor of the 

 Dissenting College, Carmarthen, under date, " Makeney, 

 April loth, 1 8 II." The Rev. David Peter was uncle to the 

 author. The size of the work is octavo, and it is sometimes to be 

 fouud bound up in one volume, and sometimes in two volumes. 

 Mr. Alfred Wallis* refers to it as having been issued in quarto, 

 but the writer has never met with a copy, and believes that none 

 were issued. The illustrations are from copper plates, and 

 curiously all placed in the first volume. A view of Belper taken 

 from the west side of the Derwent is well executed and interesting, 

 as is also a view of Derby, specially engraved for the work, in 

 which the chimneys of the old china works are prominent 

 features. Both views are engraved by " H. Moore, Sculpt., 

 Derby." Facing the title page of volume i is an excellent map 

 of Derbyshire, pubhshed January ist, 181 1, by J. Cary, 

 Mapseller, Strand, London. 



* D. A. & N. H. S. Journal, Vol. iii., page 155. 



