I have heard this insect in other places called
golden-knop, and doubtless in other countries it hath other
names. (_E. W._ p. 70) Golden-bugs the common Suffolk name."
J.G.
Southwold, Nov. 16. 1849.
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TRADE EDITIONS--COTTLE'S LIFE OF COLERIDGE.
Sir,--In the 2nd vol. of Mr. Collier's valuable and interesting
_Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company_, p. 28, is the
following entry:--
"Thos. Dason. Licensed unto him the praise of follie; to print
not above xv deg. of any impression, with this condition, that any
of the Company may laie on with him, reasonablie at every
impression, as they think good, and that he shall gyve
reasonable knowledge before to them as often as he shall print
it."
This is both curious and important information as being, in all
probability, the earliest recorded instance of a custom still kept up
amongst booksellers, and which now passes under the designation of a
"Trade edition;" the meaning of which being, that the copyright, instead
of being the exclusive property of one person, is divided into shares
and held by several. There are Trade editions of such voluminous authors
as Shakspeare, Gibbon, Hume, and Robertson, for instance; and Alison's
_Europe_, if published half a century back, might in all probability
have been added to the list.
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