THE UNIFORM TRADE-LIST ANNUAL. "The Uniform Trade-List' was to me a work of great interest. I had long been a collector of catalogues, both American and English; but somehow, it had been my general experience that just at the moment I had occasion to refer to a particular catalogue, that catalogue was not to be found—and this is the general experience of collectors, whether booksellers or bookbuyers. Here, then, in a convenient form, was a catalogue, which, as far as the United States were concerned, saved me all further trouble. Herein was collected the lists of the Appletons, the Harpers, the Lippincotts, the Osgoods, and other well-known houses, with the catalogues of publishers whose names had scarcely been heard in this country, and whose publications were entirely unknown. The unobtrusive simplicity of the plan was no inconsiderable merit; the book required no pushing; it told its own tale, and its usefulness was apparent to all.”—Extract from Preface of Whitaker's Reference Catalogue of Current Literature. OPINIONS AND INDORSEMENTS OF THE TRADE. Extracts from Letters received. THE AMERICAN NEWS Co., NEW-YORK.-Having evidence that the TRADE-LIST ANNUAL has proved one of the most time-saving and profitable instrumentalities used by the trade, and by whom it is daily consulted, we hope, in our own interest, as well as that of the trade generally, every publishing house will be represented in it. Please send us, when it is ready, 250 copies. D. APPLETON & Co., NEW-YORK.-We find the UNIFORM TRADE-LIST ANNUAL SO valuable for reference that it is in daily use, indispensable for library orders, and certainly the most complete collection of catalogues ever issued of American publishers, and is equally a necessity for the bookbuyer and the bookseller. We want 100 copies. BAKER, PRATT & Co., NEW YORK.-Please send us as soon as ready 100 copies of the TRADE-LIST ANNUAL. After our experience of the past year we wonder that the trade has gone for so long a time without any uniform Trade-List. We have found that of last year made by you of very great convenience, and we do not see how any bookseller can get along without it. We hope those houses which failed to furnish their catalogues last year will do so this. We believe that a publisher can not advertise his books so advantageously through any other medium as this. Let us have the ANNUAL as complete as possible, and we shall feel under renewed obligations to you for your efforts to help the trade. CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, PHILADELPHIA.— We want 50 copies of the ANNUAL. We use it daily as a book of reference for prices, and we find it of incalculable value. Would not be without it on any account, as it saves us an immense amount of trouble in hunting up lists of prices COBB, ANDREWS & Co., CLEVeland, 0).—Just what we wanted. DODD & MEAD, New-York.-The ANNUAL has become, beyond all question, a necessity to booksellers. A. H. DOOLEY, TERRE HAUTE, IND.-The ANNUAL is just what the book trade needs-and that badly. It would be of great advantage if you could induce the small publishersout-of-the-way publishers-and publishers of subscription books, to insert their lists. JAMES T. DUDLEY, ST. PAUL, MINN.-Your ANNUAL is of incalculable value to booksellers. It is to be hoped that those publishers who, unfortunately for themselves and greatly to the inconvenience of the trade, were not represented last year, will not fail to put in an appearance in the forthcoming volume. EYRICH & CO., JACKSON, MISS.-We would not take ten times its cost for it. HADLEY BROS., CHICAGO.-We have found it of great service last year and don't want to be without it in future. JAMES B. JOHNSON, ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-I know it would be the means of taking many orders where clerks would be too lazy to hunt up catalogues. WESLEY JONES, BURLINGTON, IOWA.-I consider it of as much value to a bookseller as a counter in his store to display his books upon. W. B. KEEN, COOKE & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.-The ANNUAL will prove an indispensable requisite to all booksellers. LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON.-We find your ANNUAL the most useful work for reference we have ever had for general use in the trade, and will supply our list for your next issue. Put us down for 100 copies. LEE, SHEPARD & DILLINGHAM, NEW-YORK.-The TRADELIST ANNUAL is the cheapest salesman a bookseller can have. It can answer more questions on books than the oldest hand in the trade. Booksellers should keep it on their counters. It will be as much consulted in bookstores as the city directory in drug stores. We want 100 copies. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., PHILADELPHIA. We have found your TRADE-LIST ANNUAL a very useful and reliable assistant in our business. Our order is for 50 copies. LORING, SHORT & HARMON, PORTLAND, ME.-We think your plan excellent, and just what is wanted. MOSELEY & BRO., MADISON, Wis.-It does you great credit, and is worth to us ten times its cost. Any publisher that has not his list in it is a slow man. H. B. NIMS & Co., TROY, N. Y.-We hope you will be able to get lists of all the small and out-of-the-way publishers, for it is their books that we always have the most trouble to get a knowledge of. M. NORTON, SCRANTON, PA.-It is one of the most useful and necessary articles of furniture we have in the store. JAS. R. OSGOOD & Co., BOSTON, MASS.-Your ANNUAL amply fills the promises you made for it, and proves the wisdom of your plan. For booksellers it is so convenient that they must regard it as virtually indispensable; and publishers can not fail to appreciate the advantage of having all their books catalogued in a volume, which every seeker of book information will surely consult. PORTER & COATES, PHILADELPHIA.-We believe it to be a most important enterprise, and valuable alike to the publisher and bookseller. We have a number of copies in constant use in our retail department, and consider them indispensable. PURNELL, ATKINS & Co., LEXINGTON, KY.-Has saved us hours of probably unsucessful searching through single catalogues for books which we have found in the ANNUAL in a few minutes. WILLIAMS, STURGES & Co., KNOXVILLE, TENN.-It is precisely what we need, as it saves much trouble in collecting the thousand and one "Cats." of as many publishers. WILSON, HINKLE & Co., CINCINNATI, O.-We have just finished something very like swearing, at not finding a certain Boston firm in the ANNUAL. A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co., NEW-YORK.-We have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the value of the TRADE-LIST ANNUAL; we could not now do without it. Not a day passes that we do not consult it many times; and we wish you abundant success in the proposed re-issue. L. THORVEL Solberg, Omaha, NEB.-I find occasion to refer to it so often, that a facetious customer, noticing my hesitancy in answering a question relating to some book, said, "Go get your Booksellers' Bible." GEO. E. STEVENS & Co., CINCINNATI, O.-We found it of the greatest advantage to us, saving both time and labor. Ten copies are in use in the different departments of our business, and besides these, we furnished a number of copies to other dealers. W. W. WATKINS, Cazenovia, N. Y.-I have given it a prominent place on my counter, and sold many books from its chance perusal. NOW IN PRESS: THE Stationers' Hand-Book, For 1875-76. EDITED BY H. D. MONACHESI AND ALBERT B. YOHN. We owe an apology and explanation to the Trade on account of the delay of this longpromised work. The delay was caused by circumstances beyond our control. In the first place, Mr. Kelley, who at first was announced as chief editor, was compelled, from continued engagements elsewhere, to withdraw from our enterprise. In the second place, much time was lost in the vain endeavor to induce the Manufacturers and Importers of Stationery and Fancy Goods to issue and contribute their trade-lists in a uniform shape. These lists were to form the bulk of the volume. We have found that it will require a few years of preparatory work before this part of the programme can be fulfilled satisfactorily. Convinced that a practical demonstration of the utility of such work as formerly proposed will finally enable us to accomplish the task, we have devoted our chief attention to the editorial department, giving there, in addition to a more elaborate and methodical treatment of the general material, all the information that we might have expected to see given in contributed lists. This has made the enterprise much more difficult and expensive to us, but we believe that our determination to make the work stand on its own merit, will, as in the case of the Uniform TradeList Annual, finally meet its reward. The HAND-BOOK will contain descriptive information relating to Standard and Fancy Writing Papers, Enameled Papers, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Card and Card-Boards, Blank Books, etc., etc., giving weights, sizes, grades, etc., etc., so as to enable any person to order from a manufacturer understandingly. It will also contain elaborate articles on Fancy Goods, Stationery-Etiquette, Combinations of Stationery Orders, from $15 and upward, Directions how to have Blank-Books made to order, Bookbinding, etc., a valuable paper on Copyrights and Patents, as far as they apply to the stationery trade, giving all necessary information how to procure the registrations of trade-marks, etc., etc., a selection of practical trade receipts, and other useful information. The HAND-BOOK will be supplemented by an extensive price-list, indexed for ready reference, by Mr. Albert B. Yohn, of Yohn & Porter, Indianapolis. In order to enhance the value of the HAND-BOOK, and make it a trade authority, the bulk of the material has been furnished by the leading houses in the various branches of the stationery trade. Theodore L. De Vinne, of Francis Hart & Co.; Mr. Lyon, of the American News Co.; Willy Wallach ; Mr. J. F. Anderson, Jr., of J. F. Anderson, Jr., & Co.; H. Eugene Hosford, of Hosford & Sons; Chas. T. Bainbridge, of Porter & Bainbridge; Mr. Martin, of Samuel J. Raynor & Co.; Louis Dreka, of Philadelphia; Charles D. Pratt; William P. Dane; Mr. Hoe, of Joseph Gillott; R. W. Smith & Co.; Miss Kate Newell, of A. J. Todd, Patents, and many others, have contributed to the book. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, net, $1 per copy, bound in cloth. The price of the book will be raised after publication. NOTICE. Subscribers to the "STATIONERS' ANNUAL" who have paid up their subscriptions, are entitled to copies of the HAND-BOOK at the price first announced. F. LEYPOLDT, Publisher, 37 Park Row, New-York. The Literary News A Monthly Journal of Current Literature. PUBLISHED BY September, 1875. TO THE RETAIL BOOK TRADE. Referring to the announcement in the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, April 3, 1875, and in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the subscribers, the MONTHLY BOOK CIRCULAR will hereafter be called THE LITERARY NEWS, the style of heading as above. We desire to draw the attention of Booksellers, News Agents, and Dealers generally to this handy, cheap, and profitable advertising medium for the latest books in the market. THE LITERARY NEWS, like the Book Circular, will be published with not less than eight pages, and will be issued at the beginning of every month, embracing Editorial Notes, Literary Intelligence, a full list, compiled expressly for its columns from the records of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, containing the titles and prices of the PRINCIPAL BOOKS PUBLISHED DURING THE PREVIOUS MONTH and announcements of Forthcoming Works for the Current Month, so classified as to show at a glance all the new publications in the various departments of literature, and one page of general advertisements, which will not conflict with the interest of the trade. It will be printed on tinted paper like previous editions, but of superior quality, and altogether more attractive in appearance. 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