Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller; consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of authors, artists, actors, books, booksellers, and the periodical press for the last half century . including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius

West, William

Verlag: printed by and for the author, London, 1837

Beschreibung

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 on the upper cover, front hinge cracked, cloth perished at spine ends, the binding a bit shaken; a good copy of an interesting book. The first edition appeared at Cork in 1835. Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing, p. 77: "It is curious to see a bookseller adopt the absurd plan of noting the contents of the second half of his book by a fresh title . It is an extremely curious and amusing work, and deserves more attention than it has received.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51402

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Fifty years' recollections of an old ...

Verlag: printed by and for the author, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1837

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage