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The publication of Rees followed the common system of a number of booksellers banding together to share the cost and eventual profit: the conger.

The syndicate comprised Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster-Row ; F. C. and J. Rivington, publisher to the SPCK ( publishers of the British Critic ); A. Strahan, King's Printer ; and 24 smaller concerns.