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Editorial Bookselling, the system adopted in Germany for the prevention of underselling and for promoting the sale of books; a paper read before a meeting in London of the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland, April, 1895 : Heinemann, William, 186...
Editorial Hundred and fifty years jubilee of the booksellers and printers guild of Amsterdam, guild token from commissioner Hendrik Gartman, Messing token. Front: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above cartouche with inscription. Reverse: Mercury with ...
Editorial Booksellers 'and printers' guild of Amsterdam, guild token by Johannes Schot, Messing token. Front: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above cartouche with inscription. Reverse: Mercury with winged hat and staff in left and open book in right h...
Editorial Booksellers along a quay in Paris Paris: title on object, book, selling, quay, Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (mentioned on object), Paris, in or after 1895 - c. 1905, cardboard, photographic paper, gelatin silver print, h 88 mm ? w 179 mm.
Editorial Booksellers 'and printers' guild of Amsterdam, guild token by David Volkner, Messing token. Front: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above cartouche with inscription. Reverse: Mercury with winged hat and staff in left and open book in right ha...
Editorial Design by Thomas Telford for a cast iron bridge to replace London Bridge. Viewed over the River Thames; ships passing beneath, carriages and carts using the bridge roadway; arcaded embankment approaches. This design was not used due to concerns about i...
Editorial A map of Scotland. SCOTLAND DRAWN AND ENGRAV'D from a series of Angles and ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. [Edinburgh] ; [London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.y 1.st 1789 by John & James Ainslies Booksellers & Stationers S.t Andrew's Stree...
Editorial Alexander Pope. The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. The Company [of Booksellers]: London, 1720. Alexander Pope (1688-1744). English poet. Portrait. Image taken from The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Originally published/produced in The Company [of Bookse...
Editorial A sword fight. A woman laying on the floor. The southern tower; or Conjugal sacrifice and retribution. A romance. London : printed for and published by J. Ker ...; and sold by most booksellers in town and country McGowen, printer ..., [ca. 1805]. Abrid...
Editorial Portrait of the author, James Parry, organist of Ross. The true anti-Pamela: or, Memoirs of Mr. James Parry, late organist of Ross in Herefordshire. In which are inserted, his amours with the celebrated Miss - of Monmouthshire ... In two parts compleat...
Editorial A new plan of the City of Bath . A New PLAN of the CITY OF BATH, : with the ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS, to the present Time 1792. Bath : Published as the Act directs Jany. 1. 1790. Sold by W. Taylor & W. Meyler, Booksellers, in Bath, of whom may be had a Map...
Editorial A plan of Bath . A NEW and CORRECT PLAN of the CITY of BATH : with the New Additional Buildings. Bath : Sold by W. Frederick & W. Taylor Booksellers in Bath. of whom may be had a Map of 5 Miles round the City of Bath, on a Scale of one Inch & half to a...
Editorial Title page of 'The merchant of Venice'. The merchant of Venice, a comedy, by William Shakespere. Manchester : printed and sold by R. & W. Dean. Sold also by Sael & Co. and T. Knott, London; and all other booksellers, 1800. Source: RB.23.a.6605.(1), tit...
Editorial A new plan of the City of Bath . A New PLAN of the CITY OF BATH, : with the ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS, to the present Time 1783. Bath : Published as the Act directs Jany. 1. 1783. Sold by W. Taylor & W. Meyler, Booksellers, in Bath, of whom may be had a Map...
Editorial 'Miss Chudleigh in the Character of Iphigenia, at the Venetian Ambassadors Masquerade'. The life and memoirs of Elizabeth Chudleigh, afterwards Mrs. Hervey and Countess of Bristol, commonly called Duchess of Kingston. Written from authentic information...
Editorial Twelve views of Maker Church depicting the different signals from the tower used by the British Navy. This shows a pre-Napoleonic signalling system used by the British Navy in the middle of the eighteenth century. It predates, and is significantly crud...
Editorial A boy called Billy Trifler, showing a butterfly he had caught to a man sitting on a chair in a garden. Entertaining memoirs of little personages, or moral amusements for young Gentlemen. Contain’d in the histories of master Joseph Jollyboy, ... Tommy...
Editorial Illustration of Stationer's Hall near Paternoster Row. A History of Booksellers, the old and the new ... With portraits and illustrations. London, 1873. From an etching by R. Cole, 1750. Source: 2308.aa.4 Opposite 72.
Editorial Fashionable society shopping in the Galleries of the Palais Royal, Paris. Man talking to booksellers, women at a fabric shop. Lithograph after Hubert-Francois Gravelot from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, ...
Editorial William Coke and John Guthrie, famous 18th century Edinburgh booksellers who only paid in cash. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.
Editorial Fashionable Regency woman at a booksellers in Bath, requesting the bookseller paste some offending pages together so that her daughter may not read a "vile methodistical hymn." Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Anst...
Editorial OPENING OF THE BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT RETREAT, AT ABBOTS LANGLEY, 1846.
Editorial The minaret of the Koutoubia-mosque, also called the Mosque of the Booksellers, because books were sold in stalls around the mosque. Sultan Yacoub-el-Mansour (1184-1199) built the 70 m-high minaret; in Sevilla, Spain, he built a similar minaret, the &q...