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brilliant but unfortunate Christopher Smart, 

 poet, author of the Song of David, and the 

 translator of Horace. Christopher Smart had 

 two daughters by this lady, one of whom 

 married Thomas Cowslade, and the other 

 Chevalier Le Noir, one of the refugees who 

 fled to England during the French Revolution 

 of 1789. On Mrs. Smart's death the paper 

 passed into the possession of her daughters. 

 The firm was styled Smart & Cowslade in 1794, 

 when they published Alter et idem, a new 

 Review, and in 1816 Cowslade & Co. Even- 

 tually the paper passed to the children of 

 Thomas Cowslade, the grandfather of the 

 present proprietor, Mr. William Wallace 

 Cowslade, whose sons now control the paper. 



Henry's Reading Journal or Weekly Review 

 was published in 1744 as a rival to the Mercury. 

 It was printed by D. Henry and published at 

 his house in Friar Street, and sold at his office 

 at the Upper End of the Church Walk in 

 Winchester. Local news is scarce in this 

 folio sheet, which is mainly filled with extracts 

 from the London Gazette and other London 

 newspapers, with occasional references to the 

 Dutch journals published at The Hague and 

 Utrecht. This printer combined his trade 

 with that of a vendor of patent and other 

 medicines, and at the end of each copy of his 

 paper advertises his sale of Daffey's Elixir, 

 Chymical Drops for Coughs and Colds, etc., 

 etc., as well as Dr. Henry's Nervous Medicines 

 for the cure of all nervous disorders, etc. 



His press seems to have been very active. 

 He published in 1747 'An Historical Review 

 of the Transactions of Europe from the 

 commencement of the war with Spain in 

 1 739 to the Insurrection of Scotland in 1745' 

 (two volumes), by S. Boyse, a second work on 

 the History of the Late Rebellion in 1745, Five 

 Discourses by the Revd. Lubbridge Wood, 

 and Plain practical and experimental discourses 

 on the Infinite and Eternal Trinity by A. D. in 

 1747. He became in 1754 a partner in the 

 Gentleman* 's Magazine. Henry died at Lewis- 

 ham, Kent, in 1792 in the 8znd year of his 

 age. 1 



Messrs. J. Newbery and C. Micklewright 

 were established as printers in the market 

 place at the sign of the Bible and Crown in 

 1744, and published a book of travels by 

 C. Thompson. They published also some 

 lectures on Philosophy entitled Philosophia 

 Micrographia Nova by Benjamin Martin in 

 1743, and the same writer's Philosophia 

 Britannica in 1747. C. Micklewright printed 

 under his own name Sermons by Dr. Trapp 

 in 1752. Messrs. J. Carnan & Co. were Read- 



Gent. Mag. 1792, p. 578. 



ing publishers in 1764, the successors doubtless 

 of William Carnan who in 1736 printed a folio 

 edition of Ashmole's History and Antiquities 

 of Berkshire. They had the honour of 

 publishing the works of James Merrick, 

 scholar, divine and poet, whose youthful 

 essay has been already mentioned. Amongst 

 the worb published by this firm were A Letter 

 to the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton chiefly relating 

 to the Composition of Greek indexes, Reading, 

 1764 ; Annotations, critical and grammatical, 

 on Chap. I. v. I to 14 of the Gospel according 

 to St. John, 1764; Annotations, critical and 

 grammatical, on the Gospel according to St. 

 John, to the end of the third chapter, 1767; 

 The Psalms translated or paraphrased in 

 English verse, 1765 (the second edition 

 appeared in 1766) ; Annotations on the 

 Psalms, 1768. A Manual of Prayers for 

 Common Occasions, 1768. The Miscellaneous 

 Works serious and humourous in verse and prose 

 for the fair sex of C. S. Boyse were also issued 

 by this firm in 1740. 



A little earlier C. Pocock was a printer in 

 Reading and produced the Miscellaneous 

 Works in Prose and Verse of Mrs. Mary 

 Latter of Reading, Berks, in 1759. The Life 

 and Sufferings of Henry Grace were published 

 in 1764 at Reading, and in 1777 The Reading 

 Races, a Poem was printed and sold by Carnan 

 & Smart, who also published in 1791 the poems 

 of Christopher Smart, the learned proprietor 

 of the Mercury. 



Reading printers produced the first edition 

 of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary in 1788. 

 The author was a master at the Reading 

 school. It was entitled Bibliotheca Classics, 

 and was printed at Reading for T. Cadell, 

 London. 



Various sermons and pamphlets were 

 printed and published in Reading by Dale 

 Ingram, Anthony Addington, Thomas Hull, 

 H. Land, Dr. R. Valpy, W. Vanderstegen, 

 Charles Sturges, Edward Wilson, Edward 

 Barry, and the Hon. W. B. Cadogan. Bar- 

 cham of Reading printed a poor poem on 

 Cranmer by Arabella Georgina Campbell 

 at the beginning of the last century. 



The Snares were a family of noted Reading 

 printers and booksellers. Robert Snare was 

 the founder of the business in Minster Street. 

 He published an excellent and voluminous 

 catalogue in 1832 of the books current at that 

 time. In 1798 the name of the firm was 

 Snare & Co., who published Poems of W. Lane 

 and other works. In 1811 Robert Snare was 

 publishing on his own account, and a volume 

 of sermons came from his press. Mr. Snare 

 seems to have entered into partnership with 

 Mr. John Man, and the name of the firm, 



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