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Paternoster Row was a street in the City of London that is supposed to have received its name from the fact that, when the monks and clergy of St Paul's Cathedral would go in procession chanting the great litany, they would recite the Lord's Prayer (''Pater Noster'' being its opening line in Latin) in the litany along this part of the route. The prayers said at these processions may have also given the names to nearby Ave Maria Lane and Amen Corner. An alternative etymology is the early traders who sold a type of prayer bead known as a "pater noster". The area was a centre of the London publishing trade,〔(Publishing )〕〔James Raven. The business of books: booksellers and the English Book Trade. 2007〕 with booksellers operating from the street. In 1819 Paternoster Row was described as "almost synonymous" with the book trade. Trübner & Co. was one of the publishing companies on Paternoster Row. The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during the Blitz of World War II, suffering particularly heavy damage in the night raid of 29–30 December 1940, later characterised as the Second Great Fire of London, during which an estimated 5 million books were lost in the fires caused by tens of thousands of incendiary bombs. The street was replaced with Paternoster Square, the modern home of the London Stock Exchange, although a City of London Corporation road sign remains in the square near where Paternoster Row once stood. ==Printers and booksellers based in Paternoster Row== * No. 1 - J Van Voorst (1851)〔 * No. 2 - Orr and Co. (1851),〔 J. W. Myers (~1800) * No. 9 - S. W. Partridge and Co. (1876) 〔Church of England Temperance Tracts, no. 19, 1876〕 * No. 12 - Trubner and Co (1856) * No. 15 - Bagster and Sons (1825)〔 (1851)〔The British Metropolis in 1851〕 * No. 20 & 21 - F. Pitman, later F. Pitman Hart and Co. Ltd. (1904) 〔The World's Paper Trade Review, May 13, 1904, p. 38〕 * No. 24 - George Wightman (1831) * No. 33 - Hamilton and Co. (1851)〔 * No. 37 - Blackwood and Sons, (1851)〔 * No. 39 - Longman, Hust, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green (1825), later Longman and Co. (1851)〔 * No. 40 – West and Hughes (~1800)〔 * No. 47 - Chambers (1891), formerly occupied by Baldwin and Craddock * No. 56 - The Religious Tract Society (1851)〔 * No. 60 - The Sunday School Union (1851)〔 * Oxford University Press - Bible warehouse destroyed by fire in 1822, rebuilt c. 1880. * Sampson Low (after 1887) * Thomas Nelson〔http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1466.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paternoster Row」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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