THE LONDON CATALOGUE OF BOOKS,

with their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers, Containing the Books published in London, and those altered in Size, or Price, since the Year 1800 to October 1822.

2 p.l., 239, [1] pp. 8vo, later half-morocco & marbled boards (a little rubbed), spine gilt, t.e.g. London: William Bent, 1822. “Modern book-trade bibliography starts with William Bent (1747-1823), who first compiled The London Catalogue in 1773. Bent did not originally give publishers’ names but he organised his various catalogues so that it was possible to find what books in print an author had written, or who had written on particular subjects.'”–Pollard & Ehrman, pp. 135-36. About 15,000 books are listed. Very good copy. ❧ Besterman 1987.

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