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Hendon, Middlesex March 6th 1789.

Hon:d Sir

As I know you have not aversion to employing yourself, especially
when it is for the benefit of either of your Sons, I take the
liberty of troubling you with a little commission relative to my mine
work. It is to get it advertised as soon as deliver'd at the Booksellers
which now I expect it may be in the course of a few days.
In all the Morning papers except the Daily, the Ledger and the Times: and
in all the Evening papers without exception: the list of the other page
though not correct may serve to assist your enquiries. Once only in
each at least for the present. The best way of advertising a book, is
to send a copy to each of the Reviews. This species of bribery, which
must be a dead secret between you and me, I also beg leave
to charge you with: begging that no third person whatever may either
hear of it or see the part you take in it. The direction should be "To
such an one [an one of the Booksellers for whom the Review is published]
"For the Author of the — — Review. " This was the bribe
and the only bribe that procured the notice taken of Usury in the Monthly.
The case was, I suppose, the title had been passed over and the Reviewers
would not have known of its existence till too late to notice it, if it had
not been sent them. But not a syllable of writing of any kind
accompanied the copies I sent, or to speak the truth left in the respective
publishers: and you will not write any thing of course. Maty in
one of his Reviews abused Authors for not sending him copies: said, if they
did not, they must not expect he should take any notice of them: and
that it was a compliment every Reviewer had a right to expect. This,
I expect will be advertisement enough for the 1st edition, which at present
consists of mighty few. There were but 250 printed. God Almighty
has disposed of about half, by sending a to them at the

Identifier: | JB/541/019/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-06-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	019	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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