On‐demand publishing

‘It happens not infrequently, that books of great value cannot be published in the usual way, as the very circumstance which ought to recommend them, viz., their rare or peculiar learning, narrows proportionally the limits of their circulation. Works of great merit have often been published at a loss both to author and publisher; and previous to the establishment of the printing clubs, books of a peculiar kind were rarely issued, and our literary and scientific progress seemed to be unusually dull.’