London: William and Frederick G. Cash, 1855. second edition. Small octavo, 8 1/4 x 5 3/8", 41 pages of diminishing size, from demy 8vo down to demy 32mo, with different type faces and leading, plus examples for the cost of illustrations.It is the publisher's aim to help an author on the practical side of submitting a manuscript and recommends specific practical actions to one who is "fresh from the sanctities of the study, and glowing from recent commune with lofty thoughts" but is "baffled by the trivial and the commonplace" of correcting copy, deciding on illustrations, binding, typefaces and other business-related processes, including advertising." A helpful page of typographical marks is also included. It must have been a popular little tome, as it went on to a fourth edition. It is a delight to read a hundrred and sixty-odd years later. An adequate copy, but no more than that, with dog-eared and soiled wrappers, a few pale pencil notations and an inked "C. Perkins" at the top of the front panel. More