Fleet Street and its immediate vicinage are noted in the annals of Literature for the number and estimation of authors, printers, and publishers who have been located here, in addition to those already named. Amongst these may be specified John McCreery, an eminent printer, who had distinguished himself at Liver pool by writing and publishing a poem, called “The Press” This was reprinted and a second part added, on his settling in the metropolis. He was strongly recommended to the London publishers by Mr. Roscoe. In his employ were Ralph Rylance and John Nightingale, two young men, who were afterwards engaged in writing and editing several literary works for London publishers. Three volumes on “London, ” part of “The Beauties of England, ” were compiled by the latter, in a very heedless manner. He was author of two octavo volumes, “Portraitures of Methodism” and of “Catholicism.” His friend and associate, Rylance, was a learned, diligent, and trustworthy author, and was much employed by the house of Longman and Co. in translations, preparing the manuscripts of inexperienced authors for the press and on miscellaneous literature. He was a most worthy and honourable man. He became deranged in intellect and died in the prime of life, respected by all who knew him.

Benjamin Martin, an optician and author already referred to, had a shop and lived many years in this street. The long list of his publications—more than sixty volumes, all of which were eminently useful, and many of them popular, specified in Watts's “Bibliotheca Britannica”—show that he must have been industrious and scientific; but also prove how fleeting and evanescent is literary fame.