Nineteenth Century British Book Collectors And Bibliographers

Download or read book Trade Names Dictionary written by Donna J. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British book collectors and bibliographers, a socially and economically diverse lot united by their love of books. Discusses the reversal in roles of booksellers to auctioneers, the movement away from descriptive or factual elements of the book trade to concern with the commercial aspects of the business, and promoting the special merits of a book or manuscript in order to sell it.