Exeter, 2001

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Names starting with ...

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Editor's introduction

Soon after the appearance in 1977 of The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members Victor Berch began to send me large numbers of carefully written and typed extracts from a variety of newspapers and periodicals to which he had access in original or, more frequently, on microfilm at Brandeis University Library. These were intended chiefly as corrections and as a supplement to my work which had made little use of such sources. In the 1980s his many-sided interests drew him away from the 18th century London book trades to the murky world of popular American literature and he took up the role of literary detective, unravelling the authorship of dime novels. In 1986 he finally passed over to me a large collection of cards, the residue of his collecting activities in the early British book trades and left it to me to make the best use of them.

My own interests had been diverted to the Westcountry book trades and I only gradually began to do justice to the immense labours of Victor Berch. The extent of coverage is indicated in the table belowwith a note of years represented. This does not necessarily imply that those years were covered exhaustively, simply that entries were noted.

Ian Maxted

January 2001

List of most frequent abbreviations

Most of these have now been expanded, but some less frequently occurring abbreviations may still be found:

GM Gentleman's magazine (1771, 1773-74, 1778, 1780-84, 1788-92, 1795- 1802, 1804-08, 1810, 1814, 1816, 1818-20, 1822-25, 1828, 1838)
GNDA Gazette and new daily advertiser (1773-77)
LC London chronicle
LDA London daily advertiser (1750-54, 1760-62, 1767, 1769, 1773-89)
LEP Lloyd's evening post (1778)
LG London gazette (1720, 1744-52, 1755-56, 1761-67, 1772, 1774-1800, 1802, 1806, 1813-14, 1817-21, 1827, 1832, 1838-39, 1842)
LM London magazine (1750, 1760-63, 1766-67)
LT [London] Times (1788-93, 1795-1804, 1806, 1808-11, 1817-18, 1820, 1823, 1827-28)
MC Morning chronicle (1788, 1814)
MM Monthly magazine (1796-98, 1800-11, 1813-16, 1818-20)
SM Scottish magazine (1752, 1755, 1758)
UDR Universal daily register (1785-87)