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Dublin Journal, November 3-6,1753; Pues Occurrences, November 13-17,1753; S. Richardson, `An Address to the Public" (February 1, 1754), in The history ofSir Charles Grandison, 3rd ed., I (London: S. Richardson, 1754), 424-42, esp. 441; Phillips, Printing and Bookselling 113; Pollard, Dictionary, 393-94; C. C. Ward and R. E. Ward, "Literary Piracy in the Eighteenth Century BookTrade: The Cases of George Faulkner and Alexander Donaldson," Factotum 17 (1983): 25-35, esp. 27-28;j. Behrens, "Of What Will Not Men Be Capable? Publishing and Piracy in Eighteenth-Century Dublin and the Sir Charles Grandison Episode" (M.A. thesis, University of Chicago, 2008).

14 Zachs, "John Murray" 27-28; H. Forster, "Irish Editions of Edward Young," LongRoom 18-19 (Spring-Autumn 1979): 14-26, esp. 15-16.

15 Dublin Gazette, October 9-12,1742; R. E. Ward, Prince ofDublin Publishers: The Letters of George Faulkner (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972), io-ii; Cole, Irish Booksellers and English Writers, 17-21,132-33; I. C. Ross and B. L. Fitzpatrick, "David Garrick or Spranger Barry? A Dramatic Substitution in Irish Editions of Smollett's,SirLauncelot Greaves, " Long Room 30 (1985): 6-io; Pollard, Dictionary, 295.

16 Berkeley to Percival, in The Works of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne, ed. A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop, 9 vols. (London: Thomas, Nelson and Sons, 1948-57), 8:41-43; Ward, Prince ofDublin Publishers, 10; Swift, Correspondence, iv 493.

17 D. Hume to W. Strahan, March 13, 1770; June 5,1770; June 21,1770; March 11, 1771, in The Letters of David Hume, ed. J. Y. T. Greig, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 2:218-19, 225, 227-28, 235-36; Pollard, Dublin, Trade in Books, 7E; O. Goldsmith, An history of the Earth, and animated nature, 8 vols. (Dublin: fort. Williams, 1777), I, sig. b-.

18 Cole, Irish Booksellers and English Writers, 5,13, 62-63.

19 Dublin Journal, September 2-5,1758; Cole, Irish Booksellers and English Writers, 3, 131.

20 Inglis, Freedom of the Press in Ireland, 19.

21 Pollard, Dublins Trade, 1o2; Dublin Evening Post, April io, 1784.

22 Dublin Journal, July 10-13,1784.

23 Dublin Mercury, September 17, 1742; Pollard, Dublins Trade, 170-

24 Dublin Gazette, March 28,1758; Pollard, Dublins Trade, 170-71. It is also possible that booksellers erected actual wooden posts outside their shops: J. Rauen, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007), 276.

25 Pollard, Dublins Trade, 171-72.

26 Richardson, Case, 3; Dublin Evening Post, March 11-15, 1734; Public Gazetteer, February 24-27,1759, 358; Cole, Irish Booksellers andEnglish Writers, 12, 100-101.

27 Zachs, "John Murray," 27.

28 Advice from fairy-land (Dublin, 1726); Dublin Evening Post, March 11-15, 1734.

29 This is a much abbreviated summary of a history that must be drawn together from many sources. See especially C. Lennon, "The Print Trade, 1550-1700," in Oxford History of the Irish Book, ed. Gillespie and Hadfield, 3:61-73; Pollard, Dublins Trade in Books, 2-3; Phillips, Printing and Bookselling 3; R.J. Hunter, "Chester and the Irish Book Trade, 1681," Irish Economic and Social History 15 (1988): 89-93; M. Sparke, Scintilla (London: n.p., 1641),2; NLI MS 2511, fol. 24r ; NLI MS 12121, pp. 43-78; NLI MS 12123, pp. 55-57, 75 (paginated from the end). The guild's charter is in NLI MS 16998. For the guild in general, see especially Pollard, Dictionary, ix-xxxiv.

3o NLI MSS r2r29, pp. r8-20; r2r23, pp. 2, 69, 7r, 78; r2r2r, p. 8 (no. r7); p. i5 (no. 2); Phillips, Printing andBookselling, 307; Pollard, Dictionary, 157-58.

31 Phillips, Printing andBookselling 9; NLI MS 12126, p. 8o; NLI MS 12121, no. 2; NLI MS 16998, p. 22; warrants from the reign of Charles II later in the same volume (unpaginated); NLI MS 12121, p. 28; NLI MS 4634; NLI MS 12123, pp. 23, 63, 87 (paginating from the end); and other measures at NLI MS 12123, PP. 36, 144, 146, 220.

32 Dublin Journal, April 12-15, 1735; NLI MSS 16998, n.p., n.d.; 12121, p. 24; 12123, pp. 26, 52 (1701); 12125, pp. 6-7, r0.

33 NLI MS 12121,