By Clifford W. Holgate. 235 
Devizes had a bookseller, by name Thomas Burrough, about the 
year 1751, but I do not know if he was the publisher of what I 
believe to be the earliest Devizes printed book, viz., “ A Treatise on 
the Ananas, or Pine Apples, with directions for raising this fruit, 
melons, &c., by Adam Taylor, Gardiner, of Devizes” ; coloured plates, 
$vo, Devizes, 1769. I have only a note of this book, which I have 
never seen, and believe to be scarce. 
At Trowbridge T. Long had a press in 1799, in which year he 
printed “ Hymns on various Subjects and Occasions, by John Clark.” } 
The Wiltshire Times newspaper has been published at Trowbridge 
since 1836, I believe. 
Marlborough had a press in 1771, The Marlborough Journal, a file 
of which, 1771—4, is preserved in the Adderley Library at Marl- 
borough College, has the imprint on No. 2, Saturday, April 5th, 
1771 of J. Smith, and E. Harold; in 1773 E. Harold alone was 
the printer. 
I know of Marlborough printed pamphlets in 1786 and 1795. 
is the author of a valuable paper, “ Wotes on Printers and Printing in the 
Provincial Presses of England and Wales,” read on 3rd October, 1878, before 
the Library Association of the United Kingdom at their first annual meeting, 
and printed in the transactions of the association, and he has made the early ont- 
puts from the provincial presses his special study. He has kindly allowed me to 
see his notes relating to Salisbury, and from them I gather that there was a 
bookseller in Salisbury 1635—7, Henry Hammond by name, and one John 
Courtney in 1662. An earlier printer than Collins was Charles Hooton ; in Dr. 
R. Rawlinson’s M.S. (D., 735, Bodleian) is a note of the following :—* Works of 
Charity recommended from the common relation we bear to Christ : a sermon 
preached at All Saints Church in Bristol before the Wiltshire Society, at 
their annual Feast held at the Merchants Hall of the said city on Thursday, 
August the 21st, 1729, by Joseph Horler, Master of the Free School and 
Curate of Wilton. Sarum : printed by Charles Hooton for the Author’ ; the text 
is S. Matthew, chap. 25, verse 40. Mr. Allnutt has also note of the following : 
“A Dissertation in vindication of the Antiquity of Stonehenge, in answer to 
the treatises of Mr. Inigo Jones, Dr. Charleton, and all that have written 
upon that subject. By a clergyman living in the neighbourhood of that 
famous monument of antiquity.’ Sarum: printed by Charles Hooton and 
sold by E. Easton and W. Collins, Booksellers in Silver Street, 1730. Price 
Sixpence. 8vo, pp. 31; the authorship of this tract is attributed by Thomas 
Hearne to Mr. Stamford Wallis. 
1 Mr. Allnutt has note of “History of the Pharisees,” by T. Twinings, printed 
by A. Small, at Trowbridge, in 1790. 
