John Nichols died on the 26th November 1826, after a long and laborious life. He was a born antiquary, and a voluminous author, his chief works being _The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester_, completed in 1815 in eight folio volumes, and _Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, 1812-15, an expansion of the _Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer_, which had been printed in 1782. This work was afterwards supplemented by _Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century_, 6 vols. 1817-31, to which his son afterwards added two additional volumes. John Nichols was Common Councillor for the ward of Farringdon Without from 1784 to 1786, and again from 1787 to 1811. In 1804 he was Master of the Stationers' Company. He was succeeded in business by his son John Bowyer Nichols, and the firm subsequently became J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley. Like his father, John Bowyer Nichols was editor and author of many books, and was appointed Printer to the Society of Antiquaries in 1824. He died at Haling on October 16th, 1863, leaving seven children, of whom the eldest, John Gough Nichols, born on 22nd May 1806, became the head of the printing-house, and editor of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, as his father and grandfather had been before him. He was one of the founders of the Camden Society (1838), and edited many of its publications. He was the promoter and editor of _The Herald and Genealogist_, and his researches in this direction were of great importance. The _Dictionary of National Biography_ enumerates thirty-four works from his pen, most of which it would be safe to say were also printed by him. He died on 14th November 1873. Another press of importance in the first half of the nineteenth century was that of Thomas Davison. He was the printer of most of Byron's works, and many of those of Campbell, Moore and Wordsworth; but his chief claim to notice rests upon the magnificent edition of Whitaker's _History of Rickmondshire_ in two large folio volumes, printed in 1823, and upon that of Dugdale's _Monasticon_, in eight folio volumes, issued between 1817 and 1830, an undertaking of great magnitude. In Timperley's _Encyclopædia_ it is stated that Davison made important improvements in the manufacture of printing ink, and that few of his competitors could approach him in excellence of work.