that will unquestionably become more im­ magazines published by the firm, as well as portant in library planning. other facts of historical and bibliographical One dislikes quibbling with what is nor­ value. A typical entry gives the cost of print­ mally not an important consideration in a ing, paper, plates, and binding, along with book of this type. However, one would ex­ the honorarium paid the author, the cost of pect this volume to be rather heavily used advertising, and the date of publication. as a reference tool by the librarian and the There is usually also an estimate of income paperbound format is not substantial enough from the sales of an edition of a specified to withstand much wear. While it is well number of copies, and the name of the recognized that the cost of book production printer. is rising, the price charged for this book All entries from the cost book are in the does seem somewhat out of line, given the order in which they appear in the manu­ format and size. Nonetheless, those planning script. Each item ( 679 in all) bears an indi­ new libraries will find much useful informa­ vidual number. Following the cost data, tion here.-Robert Burton, University of Kaser has added a bibliographical descrip­ Michigan. tion of each title and had indicated one li­ brary location in each case. He has exam­ The Cost Book of Carey & Lea, 1825-1838. ined the books themselves and verified from Edited by David Kaser. Philadelphia, Uni­ actual copies the bibliographical details giv­ versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1963. 355p. en. Following this main section is a supple­ $10. (61-6616) ment containing a list of titles known to have been published by Carey & Lea in the On January 1, 1822, Mathew Carey re­ period but which are not entered in the cost tired from his prosperous publishing busi­ book. This section includes many reprints ness in Philadelphia in favor of his son, of books previously published by the firm. Henry C., and his son-in-law, Isaac Lea. The These have also been checked and verified firm's imprint then became that of H. C. by comparison with library copies. The com­ Carey & I. Lea. These two carried on the bined record of the books reaches 947 titles. firm's activities with great success for sixteen It is clear that these descriptions have con­ years, and by the time Henry retired in 1838 siderable bibliographical value since this it was recognized as the dominant publishing period is only inadequately covered in exist­ house in the United States. ing bibliographies. A check of only a few David Kaser's earlier study, Messrs. Carey examples against Roorbach's Bibliotheca & Lea of Philadelphia, published by the Americana reveals many omissions in that University of Pennsylvania Press in 1957, is basic source, among them such titles as the a history of the firm from 1822 to 1838. It following: George Ticknor's Remarks on tells the story of Carey & Lea's vigorous and the Life and Writings of Daniel Webster of successful "drive to supremacy" with an Massachusetts, 1831; Thomas Jefferson's account of their many important publishing Notes on the State of Virginia, 1825; several ventures, their relationships with authors, editions of Mathew Carey's Reflections on American and foreign, and their influences the Proposed Plan for Establishing a College on the book trade. In his preface to that in Philadelphia . . . for Admission into work the author cited the cost book of the Which No Prerequisite of Having Learned firm for 1825 to 1838 as one of his chief the Latin or Greek Shall Be Necessary, sources and announced that he was prepar­ 1826. ing it for publication. This promise has now, Two American authors whose careers in happily, been fulfilled. literature were greatly promoted by Carey The cost books for the early years of the & Lea's sponsorship were James Fenimore firm, 1822-1825, apparently do not exist. Cooper and Washington Irving. Both are The records for 1825 to 1838, however, are heavily represented in the Cost Book list­ preserved in the Historical Society of Penn­ ings, Cooper with seventy-five entries and sylvania in Philadelphia. They constitute a Irving with forty-seven. Tales of a Traveler, detailed and systematic recording of the pub­ by Irving, was published in 1824 and Coop.: lishing activities of Carey & Lea and furnish er's The Last of the Mohicans in 1826, the financial data concerning the books and first books by these authors to be issued

JANUARY 1964 65 under the imprint of the firm. The first the other Passaic Falls. His honorarium for Cooper title for which cost figures are given the three was $19 5. "The Legend of the is The Prairie, published in 1827. The total Grisons," an engraving by William Hum­ cost of production of 5,000 copies was phrys, is made from a sketch by the noted $7,322.24, of which $5,000 was paid the American artist, C. R. Leslie. Humphrys is author for the copyright. Cooper's reputa­ recorded as being paid $70 for the engrav­ tion had already been established by the pub­ ing, but no mention is made of any compen­ lication of The Spy in 1821 for which he sation for Leslie. In some of the cost state­ acted as his own publisher. By way of com­ ments a sum is designated as being paid for + parison, it cost $7,607.97 to produce 3,500 the drawings from which the engravings copies of The Conquest of Granaqa by Irv­ were made. ing in 1829; of that amount $4,750 went to The figures on the cost of producing The the author for copyright. American Quarterly Review, which the firm Among the British authors, Jane Austen published from 1827 to 1833, are given in first appears in the Carey list with Elizabeth Appendix C. About two thousand copies of Bennett; or, Fride and Prejudice, in 1832. each issue were printed, at a total cost Described on its title page as "the first ranging from $1,084 to $2,773. Contribu­ American edition from the third London tors were paid two dollars a page, and the edition," it was printed in 750 copies at a name of each author and his honorarium is total cost of $351.48, illustrating the low listed for each issue. The cost data for the cost of publishing foreign books with no American Journal of the Medical and Phys­ copyright payment involved: The cost of ical Sciences indicates that their authors were printing from a printed copy rather than also paid at the rate of two dollars a page, manuscript was a further saving to the and the cost of publishing an issue was sub­ American publisher and made the foreign stantially the same as for The American book in English a smaller financial risk. Quarterly Revie-w. It is of interest to note Scott, Dickens, and Bulwer-Lytton were that plates were used, and the cost of color­ among other British authors frequently re­ ing them by hand is recorded. The Ameri­ printed by the firm. can Journal of the Medical Sciences is still The periodicals and annuals issued by the being published by the successor of Carey & firm are taken out of the chronological list­ Lea, the firm of Lea & Febiger. ing with the books and are included in The labor of editing this volume was a appendices where the consecutive numbers large task which has been ably done. It is a of each series are listed together. valuable record and a significant contribu­ The Atlantic Souvenir, launched by Carey tion to the history of the book trade. It will & Lea for the year 1826, was the first gift provide indispensable source material for annual to be published in the United States. the eventual writing of a comprehensive his­ Full costs are given for each issue of this tory of American book publishing.-Ru­ highly successful annual, including payments dolph Gjelsness, University of Michigan. to authors for each individual contribution. It appears that $622.68 was paid for the The Wonder and the Glory. By Edward literary contributions and $808 for engrav­ Alexander Parsons. New York: The This­ ings (ten in all) out of a total cost of tle Press, 1962. xvi, 383p. $12.50. [Dis­ $5,040.12, for the 1827 issue. For three tributed by Southern Illinois University poems, "The Song of the Birds," "On Pas­ Press, Carbondale1• saic Falls," and "Burial of the Minnisink," The Wonder and the Glory is a curious Longfellow received $1 0 "and Cooper's and charming book-a biobibliography or novels." J. K. Paulding contributed two bibliobiography of one of the great book articles, "The White Indian," and "The Lit­ collectors of our time and, perhaps (Robert tle Dutch Sentinel of the Mahadoes," mak­ Alonzo Brock, Charles Col cock Jones, and ing a total of eighty pages, for which he re­ I. K. Tefft would doubtless nod approval ceived $120. The engravings in this volume, to the "perhaps"), the greatest Southern col­ as in the others, are of superior quality; they lector of all time. Edward Alexander Par­ include three by G. B. Ellis, two of them sons' library, "some fifty thousand prints, American scenes, one of Trenton Falls, and books, autographs, bindings, manuscripts 66 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES