Dibdin might have said more, without exaggeration; some of the chief glories of English typography came from the hands of William Bulmer & Co., works like the edition of Shakespeare of Alderman Boydell; _The Poetical Works of John Milton_, in three volumes, with engravings after designs by R. Westall; Goldsmith's _Traveller_ and _Deserted Village_, with engravings upon wood by Thomas Bewick; Somerville's _Chase_, with engravings by John and Thomas Bewick; Forster's edition of _The Arabian Nights' Entertainments_ in five volumes, with illustrations after Smirke's designs; and last, but not least, Dibdin's own _Bibliotheca Spenceriana_. Specimens of printing such as these justify Bulmer's claim that great strides had been taken toward raising the art from the depths to which it had fallen. One is tempted to wonder if the ten gentlemen friends of Sotheby, smitten by the mania for this new-found mode of expression in book-making, could have had it in mind to issue _Christabel_ with designs by Bewick, or Westall, or Smirke. Octavo. COLLATION: _vii, 64 pp., 2 ll._ SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) 71. Ivanhoe; | A Romance. | By "The Author Of Waverley," &c. | [Quotation] In Three Volumes. | Vol. I. | Edinburgh: | Printed For Archibald Constable And Co. Edinburgh: | And Hurst, Robinson, And Co. 90, Cheapside, London. | 1820. Constable offered "The Author of Waverley" £700 for its copyright; but was told that the sum was too little if the book succeeded, and too much if it failed. The success of the novel, when it appeared, July 7, 1814, was enormous. One thousand copies were sold in the first five weeks, and six editions were necessary within the year. The whole English-reading world waited for another book from the same pen. _Ivanhoe_ appeared, December 18, 1819, and Mr. Leslie Stephen says that it was "Scott's culminating success in a book-selling sense, and marked the highest point both of his literary and social prosperity." The "Waverley novels" had been issued in duodecimo, but this volume marked a change to a new size. The paper was finer than hitherto, and the press-work much better. The price, too, was raised from eight shillings the volume to ten. These changes were made, Lockhart tells us, to assist the impression, which it was thought best to create, that _Ivanhoe_ was by a new hand; but "when the day of publication approached, [Constable] remonstrated against this experiment, and it was accordingly abandoned." The sale of the novel, in the early editions, amounted to 12,000 copies. Its popularity to-day is as great as ever. Scott's persistence in keeping up his anonymity is well known. In agreements with Constable a clause was introduced making the publisher liable to a penalty of £2000 if the author's name were revealed.