Austen, Jane. Keats, John. Baillie, Joanna. Lewis, M. G. (Monk). Barbauld, Mrs. Lingard, John. Beckford, Peter. Lamb, Charles. Beckford, William. Landor, W. S. Bentham, Jeremy. London, John. Bloomfield, Robert. Lysons, Daniel. Brougham, Henry. Maturin, Charles Robert. Byron, Lord. Montgomery, James. Campbell, Thomas. Malthus, Rev. T. R. Canning, George. Mill, James. Chapone, Mrs. Moore, Thomas. Coleridge, S. T. More, Hannah. Crabbe, George. Morgan, Lady. Cobbett, William. Opie, Mrs. Cumberland, Richard. Porter Miss A. M. Cunningham, Allan. Porter, Miss Jane. D’Israeli, Isaac. Rogers, Samuel. De Quincey, Thomas. Roscoe, W. Dibdin, T. F., D.D. Shelley, P. B. Edgeworth, Miss. Scott, Sir W. Godwin, William. Southey, Robert. Hazlitt, William. Smith, Sydney. Heber, Bishop. Tooke, John Horne. Hemans, Mrs. Trimmer, Mrs. Hogg, James. Turner, Sharon. Hook, Theodore. Wilberforce, W. Holcroft, Thomas. Wollstonecroft, Mary. Inchbald, Mrs. Wordsworth, W. This was an age of dear books, and not of literature for the million. We are apt to think that three volumes for a novel is rather too much—when it can be, and is, afterwards, published comfortably in one; but, in those days, novels ran to four or five volumes, as may be seen by only taking one advertisement. _Morning Post_, July 18, 1805: “Family Annals; a Domestic Tale, in 5 Vols. 25s. by Mrs. Hunter of Norwich. The Demon of Sicily; a Romance. 4 Vols., 20s. Friar Hildargo; a Romance. 5 Vols., 25s.” Mudie’s Library was not, but Hookham’s, and Colburn’s were in existence, and Ebers’ started in 1809.