Author: Carter, Peter.
Title: Peter Carter, 1825-1900.
Description: New York: (De Vinne Press), 1901. 1901. New York: (De Vinne Press), 1901. 1901. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the spine & in gilt within a double gilt rule on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. ix, [1] leaf & 144 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard. There is some light foxing to the rear endpaper & pastedown with light offsetting from the frontispiece to the title page. Very good.

First edition.

The book, which is the autobiography of bookseller and publisher Peter Carter, is edited by Jesse Benedict Carter. The introduction is by Peter Carter's close friend Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. Very good .

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOKSELLER; NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHER; PETER CARTER 1825-1900; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; JESSE BENEDICT CARTER, EDITOR; REV. THEODORE L. CUYLER; PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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