A history of booksellers, the old and the new / by Henry Curwen ; with portraits and illustrations.

London : Chatto and Windus, [1873]

viii, 9-483 pages including frontispiece : portrait ; 20 cm

Booksellers of olden times.--The Longman family.--Constable, Cadell, and Black.--John Murray.--William Blackwood.--Chambers, Knight, and Cassell.--Henry Colburn.--The Rivingtons, the Parkers and James Nisbet.--Butterworth and Churchill.--Edward Moxon.--Kelley and Virtue.--Thomas Tegg.--Thomas Nelson.--Simkin, Marshall, and Co.--Charles Edward Mudie.--W. H. Smith and Son.--Provincial booksellers.