se 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:--

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Title of Work. | Author. | Publisher. | Price. | Authority.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Gulliver's Travels | Dean Swift | Molte | 300l. |Sir W. Scott.
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Tom Jones | H. Fielding | Miller | 600l. | Ditto.
| | | and 100l. |
| | | after |
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Amelia | Ditto | Ditto | 1000l. | Ditto.
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History of England | Dr. Smollett| | 2000l. | Ditto.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Memoirs of Richard | | | |
Cumberland | Himself | Lackington | 500l. | Ditto.
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Vicar of Wakefield |Dr. Goldsmith| Newberry | 50l. | Dr. Johnson.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Selections of | | | |
English Poetry | Ditto | | 200l. | Lee Lewis.
-------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+-------------
Deserted Village | Ditto | | 100l. | Sir W. Scott.
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Rasselas | Dr. Johnson | | 100l. |
| | | and 24l. | Ditto
| | | after |
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