New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1884. thick small 4to. original blue cloth stamped in gilt. 739 pages. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed on better paper. Derby was a bookseller in New York State during the early part of the 19th century and later became a publisher. Excellent reference book for someone interested in the booktrade of this period. The numbered edition contains portraits which aren't in the regular edition. Minor wear.....
Mansfield Centre, MA: Martino Publishing, 2007. 8vo. and 4to. cloth. approximately 3100 pages. 5 volumes bound in 3. Reprint of the first edition published in Birmingham during the period 1875-1894. The Stationers' Company has in its possession copyright registers from 1554 to 1842; this book contains the entries up to 1640. The Stationers' Company, which was founded in the fifteenth century to protect and regulate the London book trade, contains Court Book registers, records of.....
