Volume 1

The every-day book, or, The guide to the year : relating the popular amusements, sports, ceremonies, manner, customs, and events, incident to the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times : being a series of five thousand anecdotes and facts : forming a perpetual key to the almanac... / by William Hone.

  • Hone, William, 1780-1842.
Date:
[1857?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The every-day book, or, The guide to the year : relating the popular amusements, sports, ceremonies, manner, customs, and events, incident to the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times : being a series of five thousand anecdotes and facts : forming a perpetual key to the almanac... / by William Hone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for tlie encouragement of learning, ex- tended only to the authors, purchasers, or proprietors of the copy-right of any book in English, published after the 10th of April,1710, and allowed the importation or vending of any books in foreign language printed beyond the seas; so that any books, first compiled and piinted in this kingdom in any of those languages, might be re- printed abroad and sold in this kingdom, to the great damage of the hist printer or proprietor : he therefore prayed, that he might be allov.'ed the same benefit in his copy of the “ History of Thuanus,” in Latin, for fourteen years. Leave was given to bring in the bill, and it after- wards passed into an act. The protection of this excellent work was a justice due to the spirit and liber- ality of Mr. Buckley. He had been originally a bookseller. John Dunton says of him, “ He is an excellent linguist, understands the Latin, French, Dutch, and Italian languages, and is master of a great deal of wit: he prints the ‘ Daily Courant,’ and ‘ Monthly Register,’ which, I liear, he translates out of the foreign pa- pers himself:”—a great merit, it should seem, in the eyes of old Dunton. Mr. Buckley was a really learned printer. The collections for his edition of Thuanus were made by Carte, who had fled to France from an accusation of high treason, during the rebellion of 1715 and while in that country possessed him- self of so many materials for the purpose, that he consulted Dr. Mead, the cele- brated physician, and patron of literary men, concerning the undertaking. By the doctor’s recommendation, it was in- trusted to Mr. Buckley, who imported the paper for it, which, with the mate- rials, cost him 2,350Z. He edited the work with fidelity, and executed it with elegance. Mr. Buckley was the publisher of the “ Spectator,” which appeared in folio from his shop at the Dolphin in Little Britain, a place then filled with book- sellers. At the close of the seventh vo- lume this popular work was suspended, but resumed by Buckley in Amen-corner. He attained to opulence and respect- ability, was in the commission of the peace for Middlesex, and died, greatly esteemed, on the 8th of September, 1741, Jn the sixty-eighth year of his age .* It is related of the great lord chancellor Hardwicke, that he so highly regarded “ Thuanus’s History,” as to have resigned the seals for the express purpose of being enabled to read it in the original lan- guage.* It has been computed that a person who gave his attention to this work for four hours every day, would not finish the perusal in twelve months. It comprehends the events of sixty-foui years, during the times wherein Thuanus lived and flourished as an eminent French author and statesman. Ilis English biographer quotes, as a character of his writings, that, “ in a word, they are cal- culated to render those who attend to them better and wiser men .” f FLORAL DIRECTORY. Wall Speedwell. Veronica vivensis. Dedicated to St. Simeon of Jerusalem. jTfijniari) 19. St. Barhatus, or Barbas, Bp. a. d. 682. This saint is patron of Benevento, o' which city he was bishop. Butler relates no miracle of him, nor does it appear from him that any other name in the calendai of the Romish church is affixed to this day. THE SEASON. A pretty trifle from the Greek is de scriptive of appearances about tliis pe- riod To a Lady on her Birthday See amidst the winter’s cold, Tender infant of the spring; See the rose her bud unfold, Every sweet is on the wing. Hark ! the purple flow’ret cries, ’Tis for thee we haste away, ’Tis for thee we brave the skies. Smiling on thy natal day. Soon shalt thou the pleasure prove, Which awaits on virtuous love Place us ’midst thy flowing hair. Where each lovely grace prevails. Happier we to deck the fair. Than to wait the vernal gales. FLORAL DIRECTORY. Field Speedwell. Veronica agrestia. Dedicated to St. Barhatus. * Mr. Nichols’s Lit. Anecdotes. * Bibliog. Diet. t Mr. Collinsou’s I ife of Tliuanus.