Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… many engraved views of bookshops in advertisement such as Wright’s Circulating Library Catalogue (c. 1755) or in larger volumes such as Rudoph Ackermann, Repository of Arts (1809-29). These visual sources enable us to see various idealised … editorial policy. His networks went far beyond the UK to reach the American colonies and the continent. Similarly, his volumes of biographical memoirs ( Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century [1812-1815]), which abound with personal …
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