Denny, fund. 1.5367,5 RI ARVARD COL B6460,3 The CHEAP BOOKSTALL, vide The Athenæum, Nov., 1861. ፡፡ HUNT UP OLD WORKS ON ART." "I CONSULTED every ARTIST I met the answer invariably was, Get up the Subject, READ UP for it HUNT UP OLD WORKS ON ART at the CHEAP BOOKSTALL in the Brompton Road; in fine, look up PARSONS" (vide The Builder, February, 1877). B6460.5 Edwin Parsons & Sons, FINE ART & GENERAL BOOK & PRINTSELLERS, DEALERS IN Pictures, Bronzes, and Works of Art, Respectfully invite Artists, Connoisseurs, Book-hunters, &c., to inspect their extensive Collection of Works on Art, including the Galleries, Costume, Portraits, Pageants, Architecture, Decoration, Ornament, Sculpture, Emblems, Early Woodcuts, Gems, Picturesque Scenery, Artistic Anatomy, County Histories, Practical & Theoretical Works on the Fine Arts, and General Literature. 50,000 Volumes and 30,000 Engravings on Sale. "There is a WELL-KNOWN SHOP in the BROMPTON ROAD TO MASTERS OF SCHOOLS OF ART.-A Large Selection of Gentlemen, Executors, and others, wishing to DISPOSE of BOOKS on ART or GENERAL LITERATURE, will find most Liberal Buyers in E. P. & SONS, who have continual demands for the same. Removals without expense to Vendors. PAINTINGS and DRAWINGS by the OLD MASTERS. New Gallery of Pictures, Bronzes, Miniatures, Old Paintings, Drawings, and Works of Art of every description BOUGHT FOR CASH. EXPERIENCED VALUERS SENT TO ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY. ADDRESS :-45, BROMPTON ROAD, S.W. (OPPOSITE TATTERSALL'S.) CATALOGUES issued Monthly (Post Free on application). Preface. HE demand for a Fourth Edition of this Directory, THE has afforded the Editor another opportunity for revisal and correction, and supplied a fresh inducement to render it still more worthy of acceptance by the trade for which it is mainly intended. The less important items of the previous edition, issued in 1891, have been excluded and their place filled by new matter of a more serviceable character. Lists of Booksellers in Australasia, South Africa, Central and South America, and the West Indies, now appear for the first time. The portion of the work devoted to Public Libraries has been so largely extended that it now embraces the Libraries of the whole civilised world. It is believed that no other publication presents so complete a catalogue of these rapidlygrowing institutions, together with the statistics and other supplemental information furnished by the librarians themselves. Further additions are the lists of Learned Societies and Institutions; an enlarged Glossary; and Bibliographical Works of Reference. For the latter—an exhaustive bibliography-the Editor is chiefly indebted to DANIEL HIPWELL, Esq., of London. Thanks are also due to Mr. KINETON PARKES, Leek; Mr. F. W. T. LANGE, Gravesend Free Library; Mr. THOMAS TARDREW, London; Mr. JOHN ANDERSON, Junr., New York; Mr. GEO. HEDELER, Leipzig; Mr. J. NEAL, Paris; and to many other gentlemen for much valuable assistance freely rendered. The Editor has frequently been applied to by booksellers, especially those commencing 'business, for the names and addresses of probable book purchasers, to whom they might post their catalogues. The Directory supplies this important desideratum, and the bookseller may take his choice of at least 10,000 addresses of bookmen and bookbuying institutions which the volume contains. The publication of the Directory has been considerably delayed by the necessity of making enquiries and awaiting replies from individuals in many foreign countries, every available means having been sought to ensure accuracy and fulness of information. The result will, it is hoped, atone for the tardy appearance of the work, by its increased efficiency as a trade manual, and the impetus which it should communicate in widening the area of trade operations and extending the sale of books. ROCHDALE, OCTOBER 31ST, 1894. PUBLIC LIBRARIES-THE UNITED KINGDOM CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, WEST INDIES.. PUBLIC LIBRARIES-THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. |