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SMITH (George) & BENGER (Frank). The Oldest London Bookshop. A History of Two Hundred Years. To Which is Appended a Family Correspondence of the Eighteenth Century.1928

London: Ellis. First edition, 4to, viii, 141, [1]pp., signed complimentary slip tipped-in, frontis., 11 plates, orig. buckram, uncut. Covers the reign of the great bookseller F. S. Ellis (1872-85) when the firm was agent for the British Museum and numbered most of the great collectors of the day among its clients.

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