A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New. By Henry Curwen. With Portraits and Illustrations.

5 1/4 in. x 7 3/4 in., frontispiece (Caxton painting); viii, [9]-483 pp., illustrated with the frontispiece, and 19 black & white plates of reproductions of portrait engravings, printer's marks, etc. A copy rebound with dark brown leather spine and sides, and corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spine, red and black leather title labels with gilt titling, blindstamped leaf-forms on spine, and similar bordering on the leather sides & corner-pieces, earlier marbled paper-covered boards, new headbands. The binding appears to be from the 1950's-'60's period, with the endpapers replaced. Name in ink at the top of the title-page: Chas Saroley; the book edges show some age-related staining, a few page margins show corrections in pencil, a few small stains, dusting to some margins. History of the English publisher-booksellers. Contents: The booksellers of olden times; The Longman Family: Classical & educational literature; Constable, Cadell, & Black: The Edinburgh Review, Waverly Novels, & Encyclopedia Britannica; John Murray: Belles-lettres & travels; William Blackwood: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Chambers, Knight, & Cassell: Literaure for the people; Henry Colburn: Three-volume novels & light literature; The Rivingtons, the Parkers, & James Nisbet: Religious literature; Butterworth & Churchill: Technical literature; Edward Moxon: Political literature; Kelly & Virtue: The "Number" Trade; Thomas Tegg: Book-auctioning & the "Remainder Trade"; Thomas Nelson: Children's literature & "book-manufacturing"; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.: Collecting for the Country Trade; Charles Edward Mudie: The lending library; W. H. Smith & Son: Railway literature; Provincial Booksellers: York: Gent & Burdekin; Newcastle: Goading, Bryson, Bewick, & Charnley; Glasgow: Fowlis & Collins; Liverpool: Johnson; Dublin: Duffy; Derby: Mozley, Richardson, & Bemrose; Manchester: Harrop, Barker, Timperley, & the Heywoods; Birmingham: Hutton, Baskerville, & "The Educational Trading Co."; Exeter: Brice; Bristol: Cottle. Weight: 1 1/2 lbs.…