[Rarebooks] FS: Rare, English bookseller's catalog from 1820

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Todd, John and George [Booksellers in York, England]. 1820. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, Now Selling at the Prices Affixed to Each Article... Including Several Collections Recently purchased... (York: Printed by Henry Cobb). 1820. 8vo. (4),186,(2)pp. A listing of 5910 books arranged by format (folio to duodecimo; and then divided by "English Books" and "Foreign Books"). Woodcut device on title page and a woodcut of the papyrus plant on final leaf. Original brown wrappers, extremities of spine chipped, paper label on front cover, rear plain wrapper, with a section missing, but repaired nicely. With the book label of A. N. L. Munby and the autograph signature of Sir William Strickland (1753-1835), 6th Baronet of Boynton Hall in Yorkshire. Rare.    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
OCLC records a number of Todd catalogs, 1812-1827. By 1840 the business had ceased.

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