A History of Booksellers
by Henry Curwen
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About this eBook
- Author
- Curwen, Henry, 1845-1892
- Title
- A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New
- Credits
- Produced by MWS, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52362
- Release Date
- June 18, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A HISTORY OF BOOKSELLERS, THE OLD AND THE NEW .
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.THE BOOKSELLERS OF OLDEN TIMES.
- 5.THE LONGMAN FAMILY. CLASSICAL AND EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE.
- 6.CONSTABLE, CADELL, AND BLACK. THE “EDINBURGH REVIEW,” “WAVERLEY NOVELS,” AND “ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA.”
- 7.JOHN MURRAY : BELLES-LETTRES AND TRAVELS.
- 8.WILLIAM BLACKWOOD : “BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.”
- 9.CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, AND CASSELL : “LITERATURE FOR THE PEOPLE.”
- 10.HENRY COLBURN : THREE VOLUME NOVELS AND LIGHT LITERATURE.
- 11.THE RIVINGTONS, THE PARKERS, AND JAMES NISBET : RELIGIOUS LITERATURE.
- 12.BUTTERWORTH AND CHURCHILL : TECHNICAL LITERATURE.
- 13.EDWARD MOXON : POETICAL LITERATURE.
- 14.KELLY AND VIRTUE : THE “NUMBER” TRADE.
- 15.THOMAS TEGG : BOOK-AUCTIONEERING AND THE “REMAINDER TRADE.”
- 16.THOMAS NELSON : CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND “BOOK-MANUFACTURING.”
- 17.SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. : COLLECTING FOR THE COUNTRY TRADE.
- 18.CHARLES EDWARD MUDIE : THE LENDING LIBRARY.
- 19.W. H. SMITH AND SON : RAILWAY LITERATURE.
- 20.PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS.
- 21.FOOTNOTES
- 22.Transcriber’s Notes
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