Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington, the present bookseller on Chiswell-street, Moorfields…

by James Lackington, bookseller

$275 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed and sold by the author, 1791 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 344; engraved portrait slightly offset onto title-p. , woodcut of the branch on p. 285; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, front joint restored a little rough, but effective ; a good, sound copy. Lackington 1746-1815 was a prosperous and innovative bookseller who, according to the Wiki thing is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade ... He is best known for

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