London: Hookham's Library, n.d. (but circa 1854). 8vo. modern cloth, leather spine label. (ii), 49 pages, *50-*51 leaves, 51-54, 51-650 pages. An unusual catalogue with separatly issued supplements (within the same pagination but on slightly different papers and typography) for the years 1851, 1854, 1857, 1857-1862. Major catagories include history, voyages and travels, plays, poems, biography, romances and novels, divinity, and political tracts. Title page printed in red and blue. Some internal ninteenth century library markings.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. thick 8vo. 20th century cloth. Frontispiece portrait of shop; engraved title page, iv, 1948, 148, (4) pages. H.G. Bohn (1796-1884) is the best known of the London booksellers and is significant in the history of 19th-century publishing for his success in bringing out classics, standard, or useful works in inexpensive series: the "European Library," the "Standard Library," the "Scientific Library" and so on. (A few of the volumes in his...
