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A History of Booksellers

by Henry Curwen

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2The Booksellers of Olden Times
  3. 3The Longman Family — Classical and Educational Literature
  4. 4Constable, Cadell, and Black — The “Edinburgh Review,” “Waverley No…
  5. 5John Murray: Belles-Lettres and Travels
  6. 6William Blackwood: “Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine”
  7. 7Chambers, Knight, and Cassell: “Literature for the People”
  8. 8Henry Colburn: Three Volume Novels and Light Literature
  9. 9The Rivingtons, the Parkers, and James Nisbet: Religious Literature
  10. 10Butterworth and Churchill: Technical Literature
  11. 11Edward Moxon: Poetical Literature
  12. 12Kelly and Virtue: The “Number” Trade
  13. 13Thomas Tegg: Book-Auctioneering and the “Remainder Trade”
  14. 14Thomas Nelson: Children’s Literature and “Book-Manufacturing”
  15. 15Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.: Collecting for the Country Trade
  16. 16Charles Edward Mudie: The Lending Library
  17. 17W. H. Smith and Son: Railway Literature
  18. 18Provincial Booksellers

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