[Rarebooks] FS: Memoirs of an 18th C. bookseller

[Nina W. Matheson]

Today's offering :

Lackington, J .  Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James 
Lackington, the present bookseller in Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, London, 
written by himself. In a series of letters to a friend.  London, Printed 
for and sold by the Author, No. 46 and 47, Chiswell-Street; W. Bulgin, 
Bristol; andall other Booksellers [1791]. Contemporary quarter leather and 
worn marbled boards. Book-plate of collector/ Grolier Club member / author 
Lee Edmonds Grove on the front pastedown. Later (but early) leather 
reinforcement to the head and foot of the backstrip. Japanese paper repair 
to the front hinge. Otherwise very good, edges untrimmed. Despite the 
flaws, a very good-looking copy in an appropriate binding. The uncommon 
first edition. 1804 a.l.s. from John Malham to Messrs. Lackington Allen and 
Co. laid in (telling of woes and offering the possibility of supplying his 
sermons or arithmetic to "balance the account"). Robin Myers / The British 
book trade ("a valuable source of information about bookselling in 
different parts of the country"). 344 pp.  $400.



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