At length Hogg, falling into bad health, and desiring to be relieved from business, proposed to Kelly that he should unite in partnership with his son; but Kelly thought it better to start on his own account. In 1809, therefore, he commenced business in a little room in Paternoster Row, sub-rented from the landlord, a friendly barber. For the first two years his operations were confined solely to the purchase and sale of miscellaneous books on a small scale, and the limited experiment proved successful. Of Buchan’s “Domestic Medicine” he bought 1,000 copies in sheets, at a low price, and having prefixed a short memoir of his author, and divided them into numbers, or parts, he went out himself in quest of subscribers; and 1,000 copies of the “New Week’s Preparation” were treated in like manner, and with similar success. Kelly lived to be Lord Mayor of London. Mr. Routledge, the founder of the well-known publishing-house of that name, commenced business by opening a little shop in Ryder’s Court, Leicester Square, for the sale of cheap and second-hand books. Few booksellers have done better than the Heywoods of Manchester. Abel began life as a warehouse-boy, on the scanty pittance of 1_s._ 6_d._ a-week. John Heywood, at the age of fourteen, found employment as a hand-loom weaver. Within ten years his wages rose from 2_s._ 6_d._ a-week to 30_s._, and when in receipt of this latter sum he regularly allowed his mother 20_s._ a-week. For some time he was with his brother, and then he took a little shop. It has been truly remarked by Mr. Henry Curwen, in his “History of Booksellers,” that the career of the two Heywoods is a striking example of the labour, energy, and success which Lancashire folk are apt to think the true attributes of the typical Manchester man. CHAPTER VII. MONEY-MAKING MEN IN THE PROVINCES.