Booksellers and bookselling
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph letter signed from Walter de la Mare to Mr Wood, 20 September 1920
Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0236
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Wood, thanking him for his letter and saying he is "sorry you will be obliged to omit some of the poems you selected, but of course there's no help for it. May one of the others be substituted for Bunches of Grapes which has already been over-used? Have you written to Longman's? I'm afraid they will want a fee - but please tell them you have made arrangements with me. The poems from Peacock Pie I have Complete Control - as far as anthologies etc are concerned...
Dates:
20 September 1920
Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1383
Scope and Contents
The material represents Ian R. Grant's seller's stock. The widely varied content of the collection includes legal documents on vellum, oaths of burgesses, inventories, correspondence and letter books, printed material such as adverts, magazines and religious pamphlets, songs and poems, family history documents, etc. It also includes a collection of c. 30 Burmese palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 19th century.Because there was no discernible original order, the material was...
Dates:
1544-1986
Letter from E. Gordon Duff to Mr. Johnston, and fragment
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1280
Scope and Contents
The letter from E. Gordon Duff is dated Tuesday 7 January 1913, on paper embossed with the arms of the Athenaeum, Liverpool. It is written to 'Dear Mr Johnston' . The letter refers to 'the two books in the Laing portraits'. Apparently the book 'on the table in the sitting portrait was a copy of some Scottish Acts'. The book had been 'sold in the final Laing sale'. When Duff had seen it a couple of months before writing the letter 'it was in the hands of a London firm of...
Dates:
1913
Letter from George Georgeson Stalhberg to bookseller James Dodsley, 19 February 1777
Item — Box CLX-A-479
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0102
Scope and Contents
This is a letter from Swedish politican George Georgeson Stalhberg to James Dodsley, sent from Edinburgh to London on the 19th of February 1777. Stahlberg wrote to Dodsley, a successful bookseller, because he wanted him to sell his book entitled "An [sic] History of the late Revolution in Sweden [...]" in his shop. Stahlberg's book is a pejorative account of the coup d'État by Gustav III that happened in Sweden on the 19th of August 1772. The "revolution" was carried out without bloodshed,...
Dates:
19 February 1777
Letter from H. G. Aldis to Mr. Johnston
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1279
Scope and Contents
The letter from H. G. A. (Harry Gidney Aldis) is dated 2 February 1913, Candlemas day, on paper embossed with Grennan, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge. It is written to 'My dear Johnston' . The letter refers to no further word 'heard from the Astronomer Royal about the incunabula which he is so yearning to send to Cambridge for possible identification'. The letter also talks about illness in the library and about how work offers 'much arrears to mop up before we can venture to start on...
Dates:
1913
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Adam and Charles Black, publishers, 20 February 1906
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/1
Scope and Contents
The publishers provide sales figures for copies of Ewart's book The Penycuik Experiments.
Dates:
20 February 1906
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Adlard and Son, printers, 26 February 1906
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/2
Scope and Contents
The printers ask Ewart to inform them how many copies of The Penycuik Experiments he wishes to have, as they still have a considerable amount in store.
Dates:
26 February 1906
Scrapbook of curiosity, 1730-1771; 1840s; 1859
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0240
Scope and Contents
This ‘scrapbook of curiosity’ consists of 18th century original advertisements of Rare and Curious Books, Jests, Wits, Facetia, Books on Angling, Poetry from 1730 to 1771. The title page is written in neat, probably late-18th century manuscriptA compilation of over 170 advertisements for new publications, cut from a variety of daily, weekly and monthly periodicals of the mid-18th century. Many of the snippets ate dated, but the works from which they have been extracted are not...
Dates:
1730-1771; 1840s; 1859
Two Autograph Letters Signed from James Halliwell to Sir William Tite, giving his professional advice on books relating to Shakespeare, 20 May 1865; 1 January 1866
File — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0029
Scope and Contents
Two Autograph Letters Signed from James Halliwell (later Halliwell-Phillipps) to Sir William Tite (1798-1873, architect). Both sent from 6 St Mary's Place, West Brampton, London, 20th May 1865 and 1st January 1866.In the first letter dated 20 May 1865, Halliwell gives his professional advice on a copy of a book with an "interesting connexion to Shakespeare" that Tite is interested in for his collection. He also advises on how much the book would fetch at a sale, and how much to...
Dates:
20 May 1865; 1 January 1866