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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18942, 5 March 1927, Page 13

Well-known publishing names *ro di»»; appearing upon every liand in London. Some of the best known names, in fact, are already gone. Mr Fisher Unwin,who has long been celebrated for his strikingly individual list® of books, has joined the board of Messrs Ernest Benn, and Messrs Benn have absorbed Mr Unwin's business. The familiar premises in Adelphi Terrace are closed. The firm of John Long, Ltd., has been bought by Messrs Hntehinson (who were recently floated as a limited company with an immense capital), and the purchase pr>B of the Long button* it freely rumoured to have been ▼•IT high. Mr Grant Richards, ibn publisher of "A Shropshire Lad," and the onetime publisher of John Davidson, John Masefleld, and the Sitwells, has declared a personal bankruptcy. And Anally Messrs Andrew Melrose have gone voluntarily into liquidation.

COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS, NEW OH SECOND-HAND.—AII the Test Books required for ftw TYtining Colwg® of; University &ro obtiliublo it Iwtt •• Many «ro to be had in dean used conditioii at a big reduction. Wondanul ratoea are also offered itt KStfili mathematical instruments: Ctfmpiiiafc spring bows, drawing pens, alia* rahft,r scales, celluloid squares, drawing toots, and drawing papers. etc. ft* ftat, ▼alue in Books and Stationwy. L. n« woum*