Book Details
LAWLER (John). Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth Century (1676-1700). With a Chronological List of the Book Auctions of the Period. The Book-Lovers Library.1968
Detroit: Gale, Small 8vo, xliv, 241, [1]pp., orig. decorated cloth, a nice copy. This covers a short but important period in rare book history when the leading booksellers and publishers also travelled round the country as auctioneers, the most important of these dual personalities being William Cooper and Edward Millington.
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