College and Research Libraries that will unquestionably become more im- portant in library planning. One dislikes quibbling with what is nor- mally not an important consideration in a book of this type. However, one would ex- pect this volume to be rather heavily used as a reference tool by the librarian and the paperbound format is not substantial enough to withstand much wear. While it is well recognized that the cost of book production is rising, the price charged for this book does seem somewhat out of line, given the format and size. Nonetheless, those planning new libraries will find much useful informa- tion here.-Robert Burton, University of Michigan. The Cost Book of Carey & Lea, 1825-1838. Edited by David Kaser. Philadelphia, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1963. 355p. $10. (61-6616) On January 1, 1822, Mathew Carey re- tired from his prosperous publishing busi- ness in Philadelphia in favor of his son, Henry C., and his son-in-law, Isaac Lea. The firm's imprint then became that of H. C. Carey & I. Lea. These two carried on the firm's activities with great success for sixteen years, and by the time Henry retired in 1838 it was recognized as the dominant publishing house in the United States. David Kaser's earlier study, Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1957, is a history of the firm from 1822 to 1838. It tells the story of Carey & Lea's vigorous and successful "drive to supremacy" with an account of their many important publishing ventures, their relationships with authors, American and foreign, and their influences on the book trade. In his preface to that work the author cited the cost book of the firm for 1825 to 1838 as one of his chief sources and announced that he was prepar- ing it for publication. This promise has now, happily, been fulfilled. The cost books for the early years of the firm, 1822-1825, apparently do not exist. The records for 1825 to 1838, however, are preserved in the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania in Philadelphia. They constitute a detailed and systematic recording of the pub- lishing activities of Carey & Lea and furnish financial data concerning the books and JANUARY 1964 magazines published by the firm, as well as other facts of historical and bibliographical value. A typical entry gives the cost of print- ing, paper, plates, and binding, along with the honorarium paid the author, the cost of advertising, and the date of publication. There is usually also an estimate of income from the sales of an edition of a specified number of copies, and the name of the printer. All entries from the cost book are in the order in which they appear in the manu- script. Each item ( 679 in all) bears an indi- vidual number. Following the cost data, Kaser has added a bibliographical descrip- tion of each title and had indicated one li- brary location in each case. He has exam- ined the books themselves and verified from actual copies the bibliographical details giv- en. Following this main section is a supple- ment containing a list of titles known to have been published by Carey & Lea in the period but which are not entered in the cost book. This section includes many reprints of books previously published by the firm. These have also been checked and verified by comparison with library copies. The com- bined record of the books reaches 947 titles. It is clear that these descriptions have con- siderable bibliographical value since this period is only inadequately covered in exist- ing bibliographies. A check of only a few examples against Roorbach's Bibliotheca Americana reveals many omissions in that basic source, among them such titles as the following: George Ticknor's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, 1831; Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, 1825; several editions of Mathew Carey's Reflections on the Proposed Plan for Establishing a College in Philadelphia . . . for Admission into Which No Prerequisite of Having Learned the Latin or Greek Shall Be Necessary, 1826. Two American authors whose careers in literature were greatly promoted by Carey & Lea's sponsorship were James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. Both are heavily represented in the Cost Book list- ings, Cooper with seventy-five entries and Irving with forty-seven. Tales of a Traveler, by Irving, was published in 1824 and Coop.: er's The Last of the Mohicans in 1826, the first books by these authors to be issued 65 under the imprint of the firm. The first Cooper title for which cost figures are given is The Prairie, published in 1827. The total cost of production of 5,000 copies was $7,322.24, of which $5,000 was paid the author for the copyright. Cooper's reputa- tion had already been established by the pub- lication of The Spy in 1821 for which he acted as his own publisher. By way of com- parison, it cost $7,607.97 to produce 3,500 copies of The Conquest of Granaqa by Irv- ing in 1829; of that amount $4,750 went to the author for copyright. Among the British authors, Jane Austen first appears in the Carey list with Elizabeth Bennett; or, Fride and Prejudice, in 1832. Described on its title page as "the first American edition from the third London edition," it was printed in 750 copies at a total cost of $351.48, illustrating the low cost of publishing foreign books with no copyright payment involved: The cost of printing from a printed copy rather than manuscript was a further saving to the American publisher and made the foreign book in English a smaller financial risk. Scott, Dickens, and Bulwer-Lytton were among other British authors frequently re- printed by the firm. The periodicals and annuals issued by the firm are taken out of the chronological list- ing with the books and are included in appendices where the consecutive numbers of each series are listed together. The Atlantic Souvenir, launched by Carey & Lea for the year 1826, was the first gift annual to be published in the United States. Full costs are given for each issue of this highly successful annual, including payments to authors for each individual contribution. It appears that $622.68 was paid for the literary contributions and $808 for engrav- ings (ten in all) out of a total cost of $5,040.12, for the 1827 issue. For three poems, "The Song of the Birds," "On Pas- saic Falls," and "Burial of the Minnisink," Longfellow received $1 0 "and Cooper's novels." J. K. Paulding contributed two articles, "The White Indian," and "The Lit- tle Dutch Sentinel of the Mahadoes," mak- ing a total of eighty pages, for which he re- ceived $120. The engravings in this volume, as in the others, are of superior quality; they include three by G. B. Ellis, two of them American scenes, one of Trenton Falls, and the other Passaic Falls. His honorarium for the three was $19 5. "The Legend of the Grisons," an engraving by William Hum- phrys, is made from a sketch by the noted American artist, C. R. Leslie. Humphrys is recorded as being paid $70 for the engrav- ing, but no mention is made of any compen- sation for Leslie. In some of the cost state- ments a sum is designated as being paid for the drawings from which the engravings were made. The figures on the cost of producing The American Quarterly Review, which the firm published from 1827 to 1833, are given in Appendix C. About two thousand copies of each issue were printed, at a total cost ranging from $1,084 to $2,773. Contribu- tors were paid two dollars a page, and the name of each author and his honorarium is listed for each issue. The cost data for the American Journal of the Medical and Phys- ical Sciences indicates that their authors were also paid at the rate of two dollars a page, and the cost of publishing an issue was sub- stantially the same as for The American Quarterly Revie-w. It is of interest to note that plates were used, and the cost of color- ing them by hand is recorded. The Ameri- can Journal of the Medical Sciences is still being published by the successor of Carey & Lea, the firm of Lea & Febiger. The labor of editing this volume was a large task which has been ably done. It is a valuable record and a significant contribu- tion to the history of the book trade. It will provide indispensable source material for the eventual writing of a comprehensive his- tory of American book publishing.-Ru- dolph Gjelsness, University of Michigan. The Wonder and the Glory. By Edward Alexander Parsons. New York: The This- tle Press, 1962. xvi, 383p. $12.50. [Dis- tributed by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale1• The Wonder and the Glory is a curious and charming book-a biobibliography or bibliobiography of one of the great book collectors of our time and, perhaps (Robert Alonzo Brock, Charles Col cock Jones, and I. K. Tefft would doubtless nod approval to the "perhaps"), the greatest Southern col- lector of all time. Edward Alexander Par- sons' library, "some fifty thousand prints, books, autographs, bindings, manuscripts 66 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES +