Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 | Page 3

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.
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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 Cyclop?dia 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 | | 6000l. |R. Chambers. Empire | | | | -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Sermons (1st part) | Blair | | 200l. | Creech -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto | Tillotson | | 2500 guineas| R. Chambers -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Childe Harold | | | | (4th canto) | Lord Byron | | 2100l. | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Poetical Works | | | | (whole) | Ditto |