Booksellers and bookselling - England - London - Early works to 1800
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London, Decr. 11, 1800 . Gentlemen, We were favoured with your joint letter of June 20, inclosing a list of books for the intended library at Washington, and we instantly set about executing the order in the best manner we were able. ..
Cadell & DaviesDate: 1800]- E-books
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This day is published, in one volume octavo, (Price 5s. in boards,) with a fine portriat of the author, by Scott, done from a very great likeness, just painted by Keenan, 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 a series of letters to a friend. With a triple dedication: to the public; to the respectable to the sordid booksellers.
James LackingtonDate: [1791]- E-books
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The life and errors of John Dunton, late citizen of London / written by himself in solitude ; with an idea of a new life, wherein is shewn how he'd think, speak, and act, might he live over his days again ; intermix'd with the new discoveries the author has made in his travels abroad and in his private conversation at home ...
John DuntonDate: 1705