Bookseller Collection

Tom Davies bookseller
Thomas Davies bookshop in Russell Street. Tom Davies, bookseller, actor and author and friend of Boswell and Johnson, who amongst other works wrote The Life of Garrick (1780)

Burnley Waddington and Lupton Bookseller early 1900s

Bookseller and Author Date: early 19th century

Advert for The Bladud Library, Bath
Advert for The Bladud Library and Henry Wood, Bookseller, Stationer, Librarian and Newsagent, Bath Date: 1902

Advert for S. W. Simms, Booksellers and Stationers, Bath
Advert for S.W. Simms, Booksellers and Stationers, Bath Date: 1902

English gentleman and bookseller staring at a young beauty
An English gentleman at a booksellers in Avignon, catching his first glimpse of the beauty Clara with her old aunt. First sight of Clara at Avignon

A gentleman and woman kiss on a bench near a town gate as a two-horse phaeton with leering man drives by. The Embrace. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson

William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writer
William Caxton (c1422 - 1491), English merchant, diplomat, writer, printer and bookseller, thought to be the first person to introduce the printing press to England, in 1476

An itinerant bookseller selling tales and song-books for the lower orders from a stall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Old shops in booksellers row, Cairo, Egypt
Old shops with fretted woodwork in booksellers row, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1922

Bookseller WHSmith 1910
A glimpse of the department of the well know British bookseller and newsvendors W. H. Smith and Son. Photograph showing busy workers in the warehouse packing books. 1910

Cartoons, W H Smith as Secretary for War - a Fancy German Portrait, and the Reality. William Henry Smith, newsagent, bookseller and Conservative MP

Garganey, Anas querquedula.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Common moorhen, Gallinula chloropus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Little egret, Ardea garzetta, Egretta garzetta.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Yellow bunting, Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Northern fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Eurasian dotterel, Charadrius morinellus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

BOOKSTALLS ON PARIS QUAY
Bouquinistes on the Paris quay with Notre Dame in the background Date: circa 1912

JOSEPH ADDISON - handwriting
Letter from the editor of The Spectator to the writer Jonathan Swift Date: 18th century

Book sale at Sothebys auction house, London
A book sale taking place at Sothebys auction house, London. Mr Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), the German-born British bookseller and collector, is seated just in front of the auctioneers desk

Gottfried Zimmermann
GOTTFRIED ZIMMERMANN German bookseller of Wittenberg, depicted in his shop surrounded by books. Date: 1670 - 1723

Mr. Heywood Hill and Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy
George Heywood Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hill of Great Orchard, Bignor, Sussex and owner of the bookshop at 10 Curzon Street, together with his wife-to-be Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy. 1937

O. E. Janson & Son Business Premises
Shop at 44 Great Russell Street, London c. 1910-1912. Standing in the doorway are O.E. Janson and R.B. Janson

French Bookshop & Travel Agent off Leicester Square, London
A corner of France in England. J. Barriere & Cie, 17 Green Street (now Irving Street) - a French Bookshop & Travel Agent off Leicester Square, London. Date: circa 1910

Art deco sketch by Hemjie of a young lady at a Quais Bookseller wearing a frock by Yteb Paris, 1926 Date: 1926

William Henry Smith PC - English bookseller and newsagent of the family firm W H Smith Elected a Member of Parliament in 1868

Hernando del Castillo (16th C). Spanish poet and bookseller. Cancionero General de Muchos y Diversos Autores. Poetic compilation. Printed on paper. Gothic letter. Valencia. Jorge Costilla, 1514. Spain

Franciscus Raphelengius - Dutch publicist
Franciscus Raphelengius (1539 - 1597) was a Dutch scholar, printer and bookseller. He is the writer of the Arabic lexicon-Latin and collaborated on the Antwerp Polyglot Bible

Johannes Freinsheim
JOHANNES FREINSHEIM German classical scholar, historian and critic from Heidelberg, though a pencil annotation describes him as a bookseller in Stockholm. Date: 1608 - 1660

Samuel Chandler
SAMUEL CHANDLER Nonconformist churchman, writer and bookseller. Date: 1693 - 1766

Advertisement, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher rare book seller, London
Advertisement, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher rare book seller, 11 Stafford Street, Old Bond Street, London W1, with another department in Wimbledon SW20. Date: 1952

Woodcarving of the entombment of Jesus Christ, 1516.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

Gunpowder Refused
Saint-Mery, president of the Electors of Paris, refuses to let the mob seize gunpowder : after these exciting events, he will end his days as a bookseller in Philadelphia. Date: circa 14 July 1789

John Sewell
JOHN SEWELL London bookseller and proprietor of the European Magazine in which this portrait appeared. Date: 1735 - 1802

John Reeder
JOHN REEDER Bookseller, Sign Writer, Philosopher and Poet Ordinary and Extraordinary to the Towns of Lewes and Brighton. Date: CIRCA 1792

Bernard Quaritch
BERNARD QUARITCH London bookseller Date: 1819 - 1899

Christ. Fried. Nicolai
CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH NICOLAI German bookseller and author, best known for his remarkable spate of hallucinations, a classic case in psychological literature. Date: 1733 - 1811

Thomas Miller
THOMAS MILLER Bookseller of Bungay in Suffolk, and a numismatist when he wasn t selling books. Date: 1731 - 1804

Henry Lemoine
HENRY LEMOINE The Literary & Pedestrian Bookseller & Author, a well known Eccentric Character of the City of London. Date: 1756 - 1812

James Lackington - 2
JAMES LACKINGTON London bookseller and publisher, who claimed to sell 100, 000 books yearly. Date: 1746 - 1815

James Lackington - 1
JAMES LACKINGTON London bookseller and publisher. Date: 1746 - 1815

John Guthrie, Bookseller
JOHN GUTHRIE Edinburgh bookseller (on the right) encounters rival bookseller William Coke. Date: CIRCA 1810

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