Burt Franklin, New York, 1969 reprint of the 1900 edition. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 256 pp. From the introduction: "Between 1645 and 1711 in the immediate vicinity of the Town House there were located about thirty booksellers, and it is the object of this volume to present a brief sketch of the lives, actions, and publications of these booksellers from a consideration of which may be obtained, it is hoped, a slight idea of the part played by the Boston booksellers in the seventeenth century." Contents: Boston in Colonial Times; Introduction of Printing Into 'the 'English' Colonies; Early European and American Booksellers.; Captain William Peirce; Hezekiah Usher; John Usher; John Tappin; Edmund Ranger; John Foster; William Avery; John Ratcliff; Henry Phillips; Samuel Phillips; John Griffin; Samuel Sewall; Boston in Provincial Times; Joseph Browning; Richard Wilkins; James Cowes; Duncan Campbell; Andrew Thorncomb; John Dunton; Job How; Benjamin Harris; Nicholas Buttolph; Michael Perry; Elkanah Pembroke; Joseph Wheeler; Benjamin Eliot; Nicholas Boone; Samuel Sewall, Jr; Timothy Green; James Gray; Samuel Gerrish; Eleazer Phillips; Gillam Phillips; Henry Phillips; John Phillips; Conclusion. Near Fine.

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Bookseller: Wykeham Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BIBLIO-23243
Title: Early Boston Booksellers, 1642-1711
Author: Littlefield, G.E
Format/Binding: Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Burt Franklin, New York, 1969 reprint of the 1900 edition
Date Published: 1969 reprint of the 1900 editio
Pages: 256 pp
Keywords: Booksellers and bookselling Massachusetts Boston USA America american History. Book industries and trade Massachusetts Boston History. Printing Massachusetts Boston History 17th century. Printing Massachusetts Boston History 18th century. Boston (Mass.) B
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We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.

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