Shadows of the old booksellers / by Charles Knight
1865, 1st edition. London : Bell and Daldy. Poor copy unbound, all pages remain together and protected by end-papers. Marbled edges. Very light foxing to the first pages, internally clear. Item #437159
Physical description; xiv pages 2 leaves, [3]-320 pages, 20 cm. Contents; Thomas Guy -- John Dunton -- Jacob Tonson -- Thomas Gent -- The Tonsons, Lintotts, Curll -- Samuel Richardson -- William Hutton -- Edward Cave, Ralph Griffiths -- Robert Dodsley -- Andrew Millar, Cadell and Strahan -- John Newbery -- The Chapter coffee-house -- James Lackington -- The market of literature. Index. Subjects; Gent, Thomas 1693-1778. Tonson, Jacob 1656?-1736. Dodsley, Robert 1703-1764. Curll, Edmund 1675-1747. Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761. Booksellers and bookselling Great Britain. Bookselling & publishing. Bookselling Book Trade History. Booksellers British Isles.
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