Bolton Bibliography, And Jottings of Book-Lore; With Notes On Local Authors And Printers
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Robert Marsden Holden served his apprenticeship with John Ogle, printer, Market-street, and afterwards began business on his own account in the Old Cloth Hall, or "Shambles,"' off Deansgate, Bolton, where he worked successfully for some time prior to the- erection of larger premises in Mealhouse-lane (now occupied by Mr. Williams, as oil and colour stores). It is sixty years since the establishment of the Mealhouse-lane Press, and from that time the business has been carried on there without in...termission by its founder,. .84 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY and subsequently by his brother-in-law John Tillotson, until his removal in 1865 to a still more commodious building in Mawdsley^ street. In 1834 a pamphlet of 16 pages, now of great rarity, was printed at E. M, Eolden's office with a title of striking originality, viz : " Bolton-le-Moors, or Modern Athens." It constitutes the first -canto of a local poem couched in expressive and cutting satire, the argument of which is : " An Address to the Muse — The loftiness of the subject noticed — Modern Athens applied to Bolton in consequence of the rising greatness of her people, and the striking similarity of ber heroes to those of ancient Greece — The respective writings, orations, -and glorious achievements are mentioned of modern Lycurgus, Philopoemen, Demosthenes, and Agamemnon — The spirit of liberty and real patriotism among the people, with the rapid progress of philosophy, arts, &c.'' In referring to Mr.
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