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Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington, The present Bookseller in Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, London. Written by himself. In forty-six letters to a friend. With a triple dedication. 1. To the public. 2. To Respectable 3. To Sordid booksellers.
James LackingtonDate: MDCCXCII. [1792]- E-books
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Lackington's catalogue for 1789: consisting of above fifty thousand volumes. ... The whole selling ... by J. Lackington, ..
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Memoirs of James Lackington , who from the humble station of a journeyman shoemaker, by great industry, amassed a large fortune, and now lives in a splendid stile, in London. Containing, among other curious and facetious anecdotes, a succinct account of the watch-nights, classes, bands, love-feasts, &c. of the Methodists; with specimens of Mr. Wesley's and Mr. Whitfield's [i.e., Whitefield's] mode of preaching, and the means made use of by them in propogating their tenets. Written by himself. Formerly one of the brethren of Mr. Wesley's church.
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Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, The present Bookseller in Chiswell-Street, Finsbury-Square, London. Written by himself. In forty-seven letters to a friend. With a triple dedication. 1. To the public. 2. To Respectable 3. To Sordid booksellers.
James LackingtonDate: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- E-books
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Lackington's catalogue for 1792 . Consisting of one hundred thousand volumes in various languages and Classes of Learning; Including many valuable Libraries Lately purchased. With many Articles but just published; A very large Number in an uncommon Variety of plain, elegant and superb Bindings. Also many scarce, old, and valuable Books. Folio. Graevius et Gronovius, &c. 37 vol. Museum Florentinum, 7 tom. Encyclopedie, 28 tom. Geneve Le Sacre de Louis XV. Edmondson's Copperplate Peerage, 6 v. Montsaucon, Antiquites, G. P. 10 tom. Fables de Fontaine, 4 tom. Millar's Plants, coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Description du Danube, 6 tom. Bailey's Mechanics Albinus's Tables Foulis's superb editions Gough's Camden, 3 vol. Campbell's Vitruvius, 2 vol. L. P. Quarto. Grose's Works, 13 vol. Edwards's Nat. Hist. 7 vol. coloured Voyage Pittoresque, 13 tom. Wilkes's Butterflies, coloured Pennant's Works, 14 vol. russia Baskerville's Classics, 7 tom. Octavo, &c. Buffon, 43 tom. coloured Goldsmith's Nat. Hist. 8 vol. coloured Brindley's Classics, 24 vol. Universal History, 60 vol. Johnson's Poets, 75 vol. morocco Monthly Review, 68 vol. Critical Review, 56 vol. Pickering's Statutes, 36 vol. By J. Lackington, at his shop, No. 46 and 47, Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, London. Where Libraries or Parcels of Books are purchased on a new Plan, by which the Seller is sure to have the utmost Value in ready Money, or in other Books. - Not an Hour's Credit will be given to any Person, nor any Books Exported, or sent into the Country, before they are paid for. Catalogues may be had at the Shop, and of Mr. C. H. Lackington (private House) No. 12, Charles-Street, St. James's-Square; also of the following Booksellers; Barker, Russell-Court, Drury-Lane; Marsom, No. 187, High Holborn; Lunn, Cambridge; Merrick, Oxford; Gander or Hodges, Sherborne; Hazard, Bath; Rollason, Coventry; Deck, Bury; Haydon, Plymouth; Edwards, Norwich; Bulgin, Bristol; Fisher, Newcastle; and also at Freeth's Coffee House, Birmingham. - To prevent Mistakes, those who send for any Books are desired, besides the Numbers, to send the first Words and the Prices of the Article they want. - Book-Binding done in the newest Taste and exceeding cheap.
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