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Title: List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900, Now in the British Museum
Description: (New York), (Martino Publishing), 1915 [1995]. Reprint. Hardcover. Red cloth; xv, 523 pages. This reprint of the 1915 edition is stated to be "Strictly Limited to 100 Copies." Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. Preface by G. F. Barwick: "The collection of 8000 [auction] catalogues of English book sales here listed ranges from the sale of the library of Dr. Lazarus Seaman on 31 October, 1676, the first occasion when books were sold by auction in England, to the end of the 19th century. It owes its importance mainly to the long sets of the auctioneers' own copies... Fine, issued without dustwrapper .

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