It would be foreign to the purpose of this work, which is concerned with printing as applied to books, to attempt to describe the Linotype and its rival processes which have been recently introduced to further facilitate newspaper printing. We must, therefore, return to our book-printers, and note first that the Shakespeare Press of William Bulmer, for which Martin the type-founder was almost exclusively employed, continued to turn out beautiful examples of typographic work during the early years of the nineteenth century. A list of the works issued from this press up to 1817 is given by Dibdin in his notes to the second volume of his _Decameron_, pp. 384-395. Some of the chief items were _The Arabian Nights Entertainments_, 5 vols. 1802, 8vo; _The Book of Common Prayer_, with an introduction by John Reeves, 1802, 8vo; _The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales_, translated by Sir R. C. Hoare, 2 vols. 1806, 4to; Richardson's _Dictionary of the Arabic and Persian Languages_, 2 vols. 1806-10, 4to; Hoare's _History of Wiltshire_, 1812, folio; Dibdin's _Typographical Antiquities_, 4 vols. 1812, 4to; and the same author's _Bibliotheca Spenceriana_, 4 vols. 1814-15, 8vo, and _Bibliographical Decameron_, 3 vols. 1817, 8vo. These three last are considered to be some of the best work of this press, which also turned out many books for private circulation only. William Bulmer died on September 9th, 1830, after a long and active life, and was succeeded by his partner Mr. William Nichol. Nor had Thomas Bensley slackened anything of his enthusiasm for fine printing. Twice during the first twenty years of the century he suffered severely by fire: the first time in 1807, when a quarto edition of Thomson's _Seasons_, an edition of the _Works_ of Pope, and many other books were destroyed; the second in 1819, on June 26th, when the premises were totally burnt down. This was followed by the death of his son, and shortly afterwards he retired from business, and died on September 11th, 1835. Not only was he an excellent printer, but he did more than any other man of his time to introduce the improved printing machine into this country. John Nichols was another of the great printers of his day, and he too was burnt out on the night of February 8th, 1808. No better account of the magnitude of his undertakings at that time could be found than his own description of the disaster, which he contributed to the _Gentleman's Magazine_ in the following March:--