Fifty Years Recollections Of An Old Bookseller Consisting Of Anecdotes Characteristic Sketches

by William West

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: printed by and for the author, 1837. Second edition, 8vo, pp. iii -vii, 1 , 200; lithographic frontispiece portrait of the author/bookseller, 7 other lithograph plates of booksellers and printers, plus one other engraved plate; a number of woodcut illustrations including portraits in the text; sectional title for Three hundred fifty years retrospection of an old bookseller Cork, 1835 between page 100 and 101; original brown cloth stamped in gilt

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