fil " setracts of a Letter from Dr Johnson to theker D Wetherell Master of Win verity College boxford, containing a full & clear statement of the tissfits of the London Booksellers, not exorbitant as Dr Johnson does in ruth allow them hen more than they sually demand. Lee Borwells Lich of S. Johnson L2. D. Vol. 1. f. 13.4.1791. --- After it is printed a book passes may past throng thue Cands before it comes Hothon of the eader, & each hand must refain به rofit as a motive for transmitting it the next. I The Doctors is the subject of the Booke printed at The Clarendon Mep. I. We will call our primary agent in ondon M Madell, who lewe, the e. must or 7 qwer them room inky us, gives coks from warehouse & Joues them on demand: Dilly him they are tosh Mr Silth a wholesale Bookseller, who sendithem to the country; & the lost seller the country booksiler. Here aгe Here are three profete the Minter of three profits te be paid ben & the Reader, or is, commexe , the st is between the manusa if any of of these If consumer, & if a be too penuriond I dertributed the cess of commerce is interrupted" "We must allon for profet be 30 & 35 fo cent. between six & the pound; i.e. for every Bf shil book we 20 thillings, we costs the last buyer 20 th charge Modell with something something lof the copier at 148 th & rocredit will be paid for de Woom & allendance by by a shilling pro each book & his charter of of quarterly be MD:lly buys the book for 15 thillin boodarterly book the e 25 copies. M Billy sells it to his cou try customer at 165. & 6 by waty of los & certainty of long credit, he the regular roft of 10 os cent. w is expect but 386, & if he trusty nohmuch more than 286 otherwise thar as he gives. With less profit The cannot have, the country bookseller |