In that varied and interesting of antiquarian and literary curiosities, "N. & Q.," perhaps a collection of the prices paid by booksellers and publishers for works of interest and to authors of celebrity might find a corner. As a first contribution towards such a collection, if approved of, I send some Notes made some years ago, with the authorities from which I copied them. With regard to those cited on the authority of "R. Chambers," I cannot now say from which of Messrs. Chambers's publications I extracted them, but fancy it might have been the _Cyclopaedia of English Literature_. To any one disposed to swell the list of the remunerations of authors, I would suggest that Disraeli's _Curiosities of Literature_, Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, Johnson's _Lives of the Poets_ and other works of every-day handling, would no doubt furnish many facts; but all my books being in the country, I have no means of searching, and therefore send my Notes in the fragmentary state in which I find them:-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title of Work. | Author. | Publisher. | Price. | Authority. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Gulliver's Travels | Dean Swift | Molte | 300l. |Sir W. Scott. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Tom Jones | H. Fielding | Miller | 600l. | Ditto. | | | and 100l. | | | | after | -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Amelia | Ditto | Ditto | 1000l. | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- History of England | Dr. Smollett| | 2000l. | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Memoirs of Richard | | | | Cumberland | Himself | Lackington | 500l. | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Vicar of Wakefield |Dr. Goldsmith| Newberry | 50l. | Dr. Johnson. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Selections of | | | | English Poetry | Ditto | | 200l. | Lee Lewis. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Deserted Village | Ditto | | 100l. | Sir W. Scott. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Rasselas | Dr. Johnson | | 100l. | | | | and 24l. | Ditto | | | after | -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Traveller |Dr. Goldsmith|Newberry | 21l. | Wm. Irving