I have already told you that I have received a proposal from a responsible bookselling house here, for a complete edition, authorized by myself, of a French translation of all my books.
He does not seem to have formed any intention ofbookselling previous to this interview, but the prospect of having a shop of his own led him to think how easy and pleasant it would be to combine the two kinds of business.
The objects of such an union should be, to employ some person well skilled in the printing, and in the bookselling trade; and to establish him in some central situation as their agent.
In later life he neglected second-hand bookselling for publishing and the selling of remainders.
This booksellingbusiness was unsuccessful, and he then commenced as a general auctioneer at Essex House.
He was succeeded by his son, who, in partnership with Henry Foss, carried on a first-rate bookselling business in Pall Mall for many years.
He originally came from Virginia, and commenced the printing and bookselling business in the city of Trenton, New Jersey, about the close of the Revolutionary War, where he printed the first quarto Bible published in America.
The bookselling business was soon carried on by Daniel Appleton’s eldest son, William H.
He began the booksellingbusiness at 16 Exchange Place by the importation of editions of English books.
The curious ancient thoroughfare, the scene of early bookselling and publishing operations, has been described in the previous chapter: for many youthful recollections of William Nelson are associated with the West Bow.
Under the energetic management of the young publisher the picturesque tenement at the head of the West Bow, which had sufficed for his father’s bookselling operations, soon proved inadequate for the growing business.
The strangest appointment is that of Nicholson, since the aim of the university in petitioning Wolsey for the control of printing andbookselling was the suppression of those Lutheran doctrines for which Nicholson had recently been imprisoned.
His bookselling business was carried on after his death by his son James, and a book of 1744 is described on the title-page as "printed for J.
The piece goes on: "The Union considers it as a chief part of its secret plan of operation, to include the trade of bookselling in their circle.
Austria, founding the university of Vienna about 1384, copied the statutes of Paris in this control over bookselling as well as in other respects.
The trade of bookselling seems to have been established at Paris and at Bologna in the twelfth century; the lawyers and universities called it into life.
The book that tells us most about booksellers and bookselling in bygone days is the work of a crack-brained fellow who published and sold in the reigns of Queen Anne and George I.
For a long time past the trades of booksellingand book-publishing have been carried on apart.
I sent it diffidently (I did send it through bookselling Munroe) to you, and was not a little surprised by your generous commendations.
If the bookselling Munroe had answered me yesterday, as he ought, I should be able to satisfy you as to the time when to expect our cargo of Miscellanies.
But it required these conciliations to render the restrictive and somewhat severe measures, which she imposed on the bookselling trade, to be received with any degree of favor or submission.
Twenty-four seems to have been the original number,[70] which is sufficiently great to lead to the conclusion that bookselling was a flourishing trade in those old days.
The fatal injury which their credit has sustained, as well as your adopting a profession in which I sincerely hope you will be more fortunate, renders the closing of the bookselling business inevitable.
Ballantyne, which had never apparently been in good order since the establishment of the bookselling firm, became so embarrassed as to call for Scott's most anxious efforts to disentangle them.
They are winding up their bookselling concern with great regularity, and are to abide hereafter by the printing-office, which, with its stock, etc.
Send by all means, for whatever books you may wish, to the Publishing and Bookselling Establishment of T.
Published and for sale at the Cheap Bookselling and Publishing House of T.
John Stockdale, the Bookselling Blacksmith, one of the King's New Friends.
Stockdale, the Bookselling Blacksmith, one of the King's New Friends, i.
But the bookselling trade does very well, thank you, Sir Peter.
A new conception of the scope of his trade seems early to have risen in his mind, and he was perhaps the first member of the Stationers' craft to separate the business of bookselling from that of publishing.
His father at Edinburgh supplied him with the necessary capital, and he began the bookselling business in November 1768.
With respect to bookselling interference with the Review, I am equally convinced with yourself of its total incompatibility with a really respectable and valuable critical journal.
The bookselling trade seems on the edge of dissolution; the force of puffing can go no further; yet bankruptcy clamours at every door: sad fate!
The unwritten laws which regulated the practice of bookselling in the eighteenth century were derived from the Stationers' Company.
At and before the time of the great fire, St. Paul's Church-yard was the chief bookselling mart.
A great deal of information on bookselling and other subjects that interested the people near 200 years since, may be obtained from the perusal of the "Life and Errors of John Dunton," bookseller, an autobiography.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookselling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
