1837 · London
by West, William
London: printed by and for the author, 1837. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-vii, [1], 200; lithographic frontispiece portrait of the author/bookseller, 7 other lithograph plates of booksellers and printers, plus one other engraved plate; a number of woodcut illustrations (including portraits) in the text; sectional title for Three hundred fifty years retrospection of an old bookseller (Cork, 1835) between page 100 and 101; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover, front hinge cracked, cloth perished at spine ends, the binding a bit shaken; a good copy of an interesting book. The first edition appeared at Cork in 1835. Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing, p. 77: "It is curious to see a bookseller adopt the absurd plan of noting the contents of the second half of his book by a fresh title ... It is an extremely curious and amusing work, and deserves more attention than it has received."
(Inventory #: 51402)