seen a MS. in the British Museum dating from this period,
where the delineation of a bird of the Picus tribe is to be found. Many
things which the Crusaders saw in Egypt and Syria were so striking and
new to them, that they thought of means of preserving them as
mementoes for themselves and friends. The above date, I think, will be
an addition to the history of collections of natural history: a work
wanting yet in the vast domain of modern literature.
A FOREIGN SURGEON.
Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury Square.
* * * * * {591}
REMUNERATION OF AUTHORS.
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
Cyclopædia 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
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Old
English Baron | Clara Reeve | Dilly | | | | (Poultry) | 10l. |Sir W. Scott.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Mysteries of | | Geo. | | Udolpho |Ann Radcliffe| Robinson |500l. | Ditto
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Italian
| Ditto | |800l. | Ditto
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Mount
Henneth | Robert Bage | Lowndes |30l. | Ditto
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Translation of | | Jacob | | Ovid | John Dryden | Tonson |52l. 10s. |R.
Chambers.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto
of | | |1200l. | Virgil | Ditto | Ditto |and | Ditto | | |subscriptions|
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Fables
and Ode | | | | for St. Cecilia's | Ditto | Ditto | 250 guineas | Ditto Day | | |
| -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Paradise Lost | John Milton |Sam. Symmons|5l., 5l. 2nd | | | |edit., and
|Sir W. Scott. | | |8l. |
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Translation of | Alexander | | | the Iliad | Pope | | 1200l. | R. Chambers.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto
of the | | | | Odyssey (half) | Ditto | | 600l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto
ditto | | | | (remainder) | Ditto | Browne | 500l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto
ditto | | | | (ditto) | Ditto | Featon | 300l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Beggar's Opera | | | | (1st part) | John Gay | | 400l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto
(2nd part) | Ditto | |1100l. or | | | |1200l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Three
abridged | | | | Histories of |Dr. Goldsmith| Newberry | About 800l. |
Ditto. England | | | |
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
History of | | | | Animated Nature | Ditto | Ditto | 850l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Lives
of the Poets | Dr. Johnson | | 210l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Evelina | Miss Burney | | 5l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
History of England | | | | during the Reign | David Hume | | 200l. | of the
Stuarts | | | |
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto
ditto | | | | (remainder) | Ditto | | 5000l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
History of Scotland| Robertson | | 600l | Creech.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
History of Charles | | | | V. | Ditto | | 4500l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Decline and Fall | | | | of the Roman | Gibbon |
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