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| SMITH (GEORGE) & BENGER (FRANK) The Oldest London Bookshop. A History of Two Hundred Years. To Which is Appended a Family Correspondence of the Eighteenth Century. Ellis. 1928. First Edition, 4to, frontis., 11 plates, orig. buckram, uncut. Covers the reign of the great bookseller F.S. Ellis (1872-85) when the firm was agent for the British Museum and numbered most of the great collectors of the day among its clients. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 107.97 | JP 9538] Book number: 21628 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MAGGS BROS. The House of Maggs [50 Berkeley Square, W.1]. Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1939. 4to, 16pp., frontis., 11 views, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers, staples rusty. Issued on the move to 50 Berkeley Square. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 | JP 2201] Book number: 15283 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MAGGS BROS. Views of Some of the Rooms in the House of Maggs Brothers London [34 & 35 Conduit Street, W.1] & Paris [130 Boulevard Haussmann]. Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1927. Square 8vo, 11 views, orig. printed wrappers. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 | JP 6603] Book number: 19170 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DARLING (WILL. Y.): The Bankrupt Bookseller. Robert Grant & Son Ltd. 1947. Orig. cloth. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP 1467] Book number: 581 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DREDGE (JOHN INGLE) Devon Booksellers & Printers in the 17th & 18th Centuries. [With:] Supplement. Reprinted from the Western Antiquary. W.H. Luke, Plymouth. 1885. Small 4to, 58pp., limited to 50 copies, ex-library, the entire item is cracked away from the binding and half the pages are totally loose, orig. printed wrappers bound in, library buckram. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 | JP 4402] Book number: 18055 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| ETTINGHAUSEN (MAURICE L.) Rare Books and Royal Collectors: Memoirs of an Antiquarian Bookseller. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1966. First Edition, inscribed on front endpaper, orig. cloth, d.w. Dr. Ettinghausen was associated with Messrs. A. Rosenthal Ltd., of Oxford, and formerly with Messrs. Maggs Bros. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 | JP 5136] Book number: 20517 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| KRAUS (H.P.) A Rare Book Saga. The Autobiography of H.P. Kraus. G.P. Putman’s Sons, New York. 1978. First Edition, xvii,[iii],386pp., frontis., 31 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. a little worn. H.P. Kraus was generally acknowledged to be the world’s foremost rare book dealer as well as a notable bibliophile and collector. GBP 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 US$ 63.12 | JP 5576] Book number: 24572 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| LACKINGTON (JAMES) Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington... Written by Himself, in Forty-Seven Letters to a Friend... Printed for the Author. [1791]. Thirteenth Edition, corrected and much enlarged, xix,[ii],22-352pp., engraved portrait frontis., cont. calf, rubbed. “Written in the guise of forty-seven letters and first published in 1791, this work recounts the life of one of England’s most enterprising booksellers. He showed his mercantile talents early; at the age of ten he undertook to sell pies for a baker in financial difficulties and soon made the baker prosperous. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to the shoemaker George Bowden. In 1774 he set up his own bookstall, which he combined with a shoemaking shop. Five years later, he issued his first book catalog, listing 12,000 volumes, and by 1791 he claimed to sell 100,000 books a year that earned him 4,000 annually. Among his innovations in the book trade was the sale of remainders to the public at reduced cost; previously such books had been sold cheaply only to other dealers, who destroyed most of the copies and sold the rest at the regular price. By the end of the eighteenth century, Lackington’s Temple of the Muses at Finsbury Square was England’s largest bookshop.”—Rosenblum, A Bibliographic History of the Book. pp.374-5. GBP 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 105.5 US$ 157.8 | JP 13941] Book number: 25371 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| LEMOINE (HENRY) Engraving of Henry Lemoine, The Eccentric Bookseller & Author. Engraved by R. Cooper. [Lemoine is represented here in a low-crowned hat, a long coat, knee-breeches, carrying a sack thrown over his shoulder]. Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, London, June 1, 1821. 255 x 170mm (plate size 205 x 135mm), slightly spotted. Henry Lemoine was a well-known character in the book trade. He translated from the German and other Continental languages and wrote occasional verses. He was for some years a bookseller in Bishopsgate Churchyard, in the City of London. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.432. GBP 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 161 US$ 240.85 | JP 21278] Book number: 22559 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| LEWIS (ROY HARLEY): The Book Browser's Guide to Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops. David & Charles. 1982. Orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP 1761] Book number: 329 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| LOW (DAVID): ‘with all faults’. Introduction by Graham Greene. The Amate Press, Tehran. 1973. First Edition, signed by the author, frontispiece, 15 illustrations, cloth, d.w. David Low, the well known bookseller, covers the booktrade from his first start as a cataloger at Hodgson's in 1926. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP 1761] Book number: 11 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MUMBY (FRANK A.) The Romance of Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century. Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1910. First Edition, frontis., numerous plates, orig. cloth, two small tears to head of spine, uncut. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 | JP 6603] Book number: 19457 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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