Author: SMILES Samuel:
Title: A Publisher and His Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843. In Two Volumes...
Description: London. John Murray. 1891. Volumes 1 and 2. (9725) HEAVY hardbacks which will require extra postage. Good in navy cloth with blind tooled lines on front and rear boards and gilt lettering to spines. Ageing to edges of textblocks. Previous owners attractive old printed bookplate (Douglas Scott) on front pastedowns. Tiny blind stamp of W. H. Smith 186 Strand Library at top of front fly-leaf of Vol. 1 only. Browning to front and rear fly-leaves of both volumes. Both sound tight copies. No d.w's.

Keywords: Biography. John Murray.