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050 00 $aZ323$b.M95
100 1 $aMumby, Frank Arthur,$d1872-
245 14 $aThe romance of book selling:$ba history from the earliest times to the twentieth century,$cby Frank A. Mumby ... with a bibliography by W. H. Peet.
260 $aLondon,$bChapman & Hall, limited,$c1910.
300 $axviii, 490, [1] p.$bfront., illus., plates, ports., facsims.$c23 cm.
505 0 $aThe beginnings of the book world.--Through the dark ages.--The dawn of printing.--The book trade under Queen Elizabeth.--Shakespeare's publishers.--Through the reign of James I.--Charles I. and the commonwealth.--The restoration and the revolution.--The early eighteenth century.--In Dr. Johnson's day.--The end of the golden age of bookselling.--The last half-century.--Publishers of to-day.--Appendix I. The original charter of the Stationers' company, granted by Philip and Mary, 1557.--Appendix II. Bibliography of publishing and bookselling. By W. H. Peet <Reprinted (with additions) from Notes and queries>--Index.
650 0 $aBooksellers and bookselling$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aPublishers and publishing$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aBooksellers and bookselling$xBibliography.
650 0 $aPublishers and publishing$xBibliography.
700 1 $aPeet, W. H.$q(William Henry),$d1840-1916.