The printer won his case; but he eventually consented to remove his steam presses from the neighbourhood, on the Duke paying him a certain sum to be determined by the award of arbitrators.
It happened, about this period, that a sort of murrain fell upon the London publishers.

After the failure of Constable at Edinburgh, they came down one after another, like a pack of cards.

Authors are not the only people who lose labour and money by publishers; there are also cases where publishers are ruined by authors.

Printers also now lost heavily.

In one week, Mr.Clowes sustained losses through the failure of London publishers to the extent of about 25,000L.