Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller : consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of authors, artists, actors, books, booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections : and an unlimited retrospect, including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their author.
| Author/creator | West, William |
| Other author | West, William, 1770-1854. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed by and for the author, 1837. |
| Description | vii, [9]-100 pages, 2 leaves, [101]-200 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Available to subscribing institutions |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | 50 years' recollections of an old bookseller |
| General note | Frontispiece is portrait of author, William West. |
| General note | "Three hundred and fifty years retrospection of an old bookseller. Cork, 1835" (2 p. l., p. [101]-200, with special t.p. and prospectus) is regarded by the author as pt. 2 of his work. |
| General note | "Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller ..." first issued Cork, 1830; reissued Cork, 1835; London, 1837. One ed. only of "Three hundred and fifty years retrospection ..." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Widener Library, Harvard University. |
| General note | Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29816.37. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |
| LCCN | nuc87815939 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |