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In this work, compiled from the papers in the Society's offices, the various kinds of agreements proposed by Publishers to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements. The book is nearly ready, and will be issued as soon as possible. CHEAP PRINTING, A NECESSITY OF THE AGE!!! Attention is called to the following important features of this Company: There is no Promotion Money to be paid. There is no Payment for Goodwill or Old and Worn-out Machinery and Plant. There are no Founders' Shares, all the Profits belonging to the Shareholders without preference or distinction The ECONOMIC PRINTING & PUBLISHING COMPANY, Limited. 100,000 SHARES OF £1 EACH UPON WHICH IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT NOT MORE THAN 1os. PER SHARE WILL BE CALLED UP AT PRESENT. ISSUE OF 100,000 SHARES, payable as follows:-2s. 6d. per SHARE on APPLICATION, 2s. 6d. per SHARE on ALLOTMENT JUSTIN MCCARTHY, Esq., M.P., 20, Cheyne Gardens, S. W., Chairman. JOSEPH BOULTON, Esq. (Messrs. Joseph Boulton & Co., Limited), Printers and Publishers, Worship Street, E.C. CAMPBELL PRAED, ESQ., 39, Norfolk Square. HENRY P. WELCH, Esq. (Messrs. Welch, Perrin, & Co.), 7, Mark Lane, E.C. And one or two Directors to be chosen by the Board from the first Shareholders. BANKERS.-Messrs. WILLIAMS, DEACON & Co., 20, Birchin Lane, E.C.; Messrs. PRAED & Co., 189, Fleet Street, E.C. SECRETARY (pro tem.).-A. G. SYMONDS, Esq., M.A. Oxon. PROSPECTUS. The Company is formed for the purpose of engaging in the business of cheap printing and publishing on a large scale. The demand for cheaper books, magazines, and newspapers, is rapidly on the increase owing to the spread of education and the growth of population. Hundreds of the best serial publications and standard works are beyond the reach of the masses by reason of their virtually prohibitive prices; whilst the works of specialists in the various scientific and learned professions find but a limited field amongst those for whom they are intended, because the purchasing of books, varying in price from six shillings to thirty shillings a volume, constitutes a severe tax on the fixed incomes of many professional men. Recent developments in printing machinery prove that cheap and good books, magazines, and general literature is certainly attainable, especially if modern plant and appliances be combined under one administration and under one roof. A Printing Establishment combining all the aforesaid requisites in one set of hands, with abundance of the newest plant, and placed in the position of a ready cash purchaser of paper, will be enabled to produce printed literature-the greatest necessity of the age-cheaply and on a large scale, and in a quarter of the time it would otherwise take to turn out work. Good printing or publishing houses, even in the worst times, are hardly ever idle; and the continuous high dividends declared by them attest the solid and profitable nature of the printing and publishing industry generally. The following are the only firms whose Shares are quoted in the Stock Cassell & Co., Limited... Ord. Share Capital. £363,890 of Shares. £100,000 ... ΙΟ ... 9 Price. 21 Limited The Shares in these and other similar Companies are held in high repute, and are difficult to obtain, the concerns being in some cases little more than private family partnerships, from participation in the profits of which both authors, customers, and the general public are shut out. Accordingly, the Company will erect entirely new workshops on an eligible site near London which the Directors have in view. Some of the best modern printing works are now situated at Guildford, Aylesbury, Redhill, Kingston, and other places outside London. The Company's workshops will have good railway and cartage facilities. They will be erected from the designs of Mr. William Dawes, Architect, of Manchester and London. Their estimated cost is moderate, and the buildings are designed on such a scale as will admit of gradual expansion in sections as business grows. The first section can be open for business, already promised, within a few months of the allotment of shares. They will be fitted throughout with the electric light, a great boon in itself to compositors. As they will be new, great expenses for repairs will be avoided; and, being practically fireproof, their insurance will be at low rates. No payments have been or will be made for goodwill' or promotion money, or, in fact, initiatory charges of any kind other than the preliminary expenses incident to the formation and successful establishment of the Company. REGISTERED OFFICES (pro tem.).-68, Coleman Street, London, E.C. those of the Companies mentioned above, and that there is every probability of substantial dividends. In the selection of the printing plant the Directors have taken into consideration the fact that, whereas in all but one of the branches connected with the printing of books and newspapers enormous economies have in the past fifty years been effected, mainly through the increased productive power of various machines, in the one central and essential branch, viz., the composing room, not only have the expenses increased, but the modus operandi is almost as primitive as in the days of Guthenberg and Caxton. The Directors believe that the machine known as the Linotype Composing Machine is capable of effecting the largest nett economies over the present cost of type-setting by hand, and that by adopting it they save a large capital outlay for type. They have accordingly contracted for a supply of Linotype Machines under special conditions, of which the following are among the most important: The rate of wages paid to ordinary compositors in London varies in piece work from 8d. to rod. per 1,000 ens of type set up, corrected, and distributed; but the Linotype Company (Limited), agrees to hire to the Economic Printing and Publishing Company Linotype Composing Machines, and to charge a Royalty equal to only 2d. per 1,000 ens of matter set up, corrected, and automatically distributed. When machines are unemployed, a small sum only is charged for each working hour. The Linotype Company also gives to this Company a monopoly as regards the use of their machines for London and ten miles round, subject only to certain exceptions. To make the Company's operations partake as largely as possible of a co-operative character, a percentage rebate off the ordinary printing tariff will be allowed to all authors who are shareholders in the Company, and all employés will, as far as possible, be chosen first from amongst the shareholders. It is intended to apply to the Stock Exchange for a quotation. Contract dated the 3rd day of June, 1890, made between the Linotype Company (Limited) of the one part, and A. G. Symonds, as trustee for the Company, of the other part, being the contract referred to above. The above is the only contract to which the Company is a party, but arrangements have been made with other persons relating to the preliminary expenses of formation of the Company, and procuring capital which may constitute contracts within the meaning of section 38 of the Companies Acts, 1867; but applicants for shares shall be deemed to waive their rights to specification of any particulars of such arrangements or contracts, and to accept the above statements as sufficient compliance with Section 38 of the Companies Acts, 1867. The Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Contract mentioned above can be inspected by applicants for Shares at the Offices of the Company's Solicitors. Applications for Shares may be made by letter or on the prescribed form, and forwarded, with a remittance for the amount of the deposit payable on application, to the Bankers of the Company, or to the Secretary, at the Office of the Company. 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