Street vendors on the Seine in Paris: a pet-groomer, a shoe shiner, and a bookstall. Coloured lithograph, 183-.

John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.

An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.

Elsie Bertram.

51 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to (21 cm)

A catalogue of ancient and modern books, including many curious and scarce articles, together with a large collection of old tracts, particularly trials; also some engraved British portraits, and prints for illustration; with a few paintings in oil, which are now on sale, (for ready money only) at the prices affixed to each article, / By William Hone, bookseller. 45, Ludgate Hill, London.

Obituary: Richard Gurney, 1920-2001 / an appreciation by John Boyle.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17 x 11.7 cm

J. Miller's catalogue of books, (continued from last month,) 404, Oxford Street, five doors from Dean Street.

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Elsie Bertram.

Obituary: Richard Gurney, 1920-2001 / an appreciation by John Boyle.

An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.

J. Miller's catalogue of books, (continued from last month,) 404, Oxford Street, five doors from Dean Street.

Booksellers and bookselling

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Elsie Bertram.

Obituary: Richard Gurney, 1920-2001 / an appreciation by John Boyle.

An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.

J. Miller's catalogue of books, (continued from last month,) 404, Oxford Street, five doors from Dean Street.

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