Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Beth Trapaga and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Stephen Archer was a stationer, bookseller, and newsmonger in one of the suburbs of London. The newspapers hung in a sort of rack at his door, as if for the convenience of the public to help themselves in passing. On his counter lay penny weeklies and books coming out in parts, amongst which the _Family Herald_ was in force, and the _London Journal_ not to be found. I had occasion once to try the extent of his stock, for I required a good many copies of one of Shakspere's plays--at a penny, if I could find such. He shook his head, and told me he could not encourage the sale of such productions. This pleas…
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