For my own part, I am sometimes forced to make types, which are commonly brass, of which I here send you a specimen (± a ± b ± c). It is called plus-minus ±. I printed my first tracts at Cambridge when Archdeacon (not Bentham) was their printer. I was very sick of it; the University meanly provided with mathematical types insomuch that they used daggers turned sideways for _plus's_. They were sunk into arrant traders, even to printing hand-bills, quack-bills, &c., which they then for the first time permitted for Archdeacon's profit. As to tablework of which I had a deal, they knew nothing of it; and many a brass rule was I forced to make myself.... I complained of this to Mr Bowyer, and would have had him print my essay on Hadley's quadrant[126]; but he was too full of more important work. I remember I told him I had marked all Archdeacon's damaged letters; which were not a few, especially in the italic. To which the old gentleman replied 'I don't like you the better for that.' One of the last books printed by the Archdeacon-Burges partnership was a translation of a Latin poem, _The Immortality of the Soul_, by Isaac Hawkins Browne who, "one of the first wits of this country," according to Johnson, "got into Parliament, and never opened his mouth." John Burges continued as sole printer after the death of Archdeacon in 1795. Two large dictionaries were, amongst other works, printed during his term of office: Ladvocat's _Historical and Biographical Dictionary_ (1800-1801) and Hoogeveen's _Dictionarium Analogicum_ (1800); academical works of reference, such as _Cambridge University Calendar_ (1796) and the _Graduati Cantabrigienses_ (1800), also begin to appear; the _Calendar_, however, was not regularly printed at the Press until 1826, and it is only since 1914 that the Syndics have been responsible for its publication[127]. Finally, there may be noted Relhan's _Flora Cantabrigiensis_ (2nd ed. 1802) and Harraden's _Picturesque Views of Cambridge_ (1800) containing 24 views from original drawings by Richard Harraden, a London artist who came to Cambridge in 1798. [Illustration: THE SENATE HOUSE, THE NEW LIBRARY, AND ST MARY'S CHURCH] (From _Cantabrigia Depicta_, 1763) VII THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY The immediate official successor of Burges as university printer was John Deighton, elected on 28 April, 1802; he, however, held office only till 11 December of the same year and seems to have served the Press as publishing agent rather than as printer. Thus in 1803 he, with Francis Hodson of Cambridge and Richard Newcomb of Stamford, undertook to purchase the whole stock of royal octavo bibles belonging to the university (amounting to 5627 copies in all) for the sum of £2323 10_s_. Deighton had begun business in Cambridge about 1777 and removed to London in 1786; in 1795 he appears to have returned to Cambridge, where he established the bookselling firm that has since become Deighton, Bell and Co.