› › Fifty Years Recollections Of An Old Bookseller; Consisting Of Anecdotes Characteristic Sketches And Original Traits And Eccentricities Of Authors Artists Actors Books Booksellers And Of The Periodical Press For The Last Half Century Including Some Extraordinary Circumstances Relative To The Letters Of Junius And A Chain Of Corroborative Evidence Respecting Their Author And An Unlimited Retrospect Etc The Preface Signed W W I E William West

Fifty years'recollections of an old bookseller; consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the last half century ... including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their Author ... and an unlimited retrospect, etc. [The preface signed: W. W., i.e. William West.]

Author : William WEST (Bookseller.)

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Page : 120 pages

File Size : 27,14 MB

Release : 1835

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Fifty years'recollections of an old bookseller; consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the last half century ... including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their Author ... and an unlimited retrospect, etc. [The preface signed: W. W., i.e. William West.]

Author : William WEST (Bookseller.)

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Page : 110 pages

File Size : 48,84 MB

Release : 1835

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The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

Author : William Thomas

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 1669 pages

File Size : 44,14 MB

Release : 2024-07-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1040156134

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Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings.





A Bibliography of Printing

Author : E. C. Bigmore

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 33,99 MB

Release : 2014-08-28

Category : Design

ISBN : 1108074340

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This three-volume bibliography of printing, published 1880-6, quickly became a classic reference work, and is still of value today.



A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990

Author : Asa Briggs

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Page : 610 pages

File Size : 50,73 MB

Release : 2008

Category : History

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"Social historian Briggs tells the story of Longmans' role in the book trade and its international, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The UK's oldest commercial publisher, they have produced numerous books on law, medicine, religion, science, sport, reference, and education. Includes index, over 260 illustrations, and five appendices"--Provided by publisher.