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The CHEAP BOOKSTALL, vide The Athenæum, Nov., 1861.

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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).

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, Por-
traits, Pageants, Architecture, Decoration, Ornament, Sculpture, Emblems,
Early Woodcuts, Gems, Picturesque Scenery, Artistic Anatomy, County His-
tories, Practical & Theoretical Works on the Fine Arts, and General Literature.

50,000 Volumes and 80,000 Engravings on Sale.
"There is a WELL-KNOWN SHOP in the BROMPTON ROAD
which it is SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PASS, for there do OLD
WORKS ON ART AND ARCHITECTURE ABOUND" (vide
The Builder, July 28th, 1883).

TO MASTERS OF SCHOOLS OF ART.-A Large Selection of
Art Books (at less than half-price) suitable for Art Prizes.
LICENSED ART and LITERARY VALUERS for PURCHASE or PROBATE.

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,
and Objets d'Art just added.

OLD PAINTINGS, Drawings, Engravings, and WORKS OF ART
Of every description Bought for Cash.

EXPERIENCED VALUERS SENT TO ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY.

ADDRESS 45, BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, S.W.

(OPPOSITE TATTERSALL'S.)

CATALOGUES issued Monthly (Post Free on application).

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SOME
OME books, like some trees, grow from a mere seed.

The first germ of this book was sown in the year
1886, and brought forth a tiny volume of 72 pages-an
imperfect catalogue of Second-hand Book Dealers in the
United Kingdom and nothing more; the second edition,
appearing in 1888, rose to 174 pages; the third, in 1891,
assumed an international character, and in the attempt to

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put a girdle round about the earth," grew to 376 pages; the fourth, in 1894, exhibited further signs of development; and the present, the fifth of the series, with enlargements in all sections, has expanded to 420 pages. Beyond these salutary indications of growth in itself, this book has given birth to numerous offspring-works differing in some degree from the parent form-but bearing unmistakable evidence of their origin.

This edition of the Directory, in addition to the usual
contents, supplies the names and addresses of firms dealing
in NEW BOOKS-a large increase of matter which has
necessitated the use of rather smaller type in the first
division of the work. The two classes of Booksellers—

dealers in NEW and in SECOND-HAND literature—are clearly
distinguished, so that in mailing announcements it will be
a simple matter to address one or the other as desired.

Unusual pains have been taken to make the lists complete up to the moment of going to press. Proof slips for revision and correction have been posted to every town of importance in the United Kingdom and abroad, a safeguard which has delayed publication, but with the result of securing probably the most accurate register of bona-fide dealers in books that has hitherto been published.

The Editor is indebted to MR. DANIEL HIPWELL for a careful and exhaustive Bibliography, which includes Works of Reference upon all subjects; Book-Plates; Concordances; Book and Library Catalogues; and Trade Journals.

The alphabetical arrangement is followed throughout, either in the order of towns or of names of persons.

The Editor has received various suggestions tending on the whole to increase the practical value of the Directory. Some of these have been adopted, others, owing to considerations of space, could not be utilised in the present issue.

Thanks are due and are cordially tendered to those who have so kindly responded to enquiries, or volunteered valuable information.

ROCHDALE,

NOVEMBER 4TH, 1898.

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BOOK AND LIBRARY CATALOGues, Trade JOURNALS, &c. 348-351

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The International Directory of Booksellers,

FOURTH EDITION, 1894,

CONTAINING

GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN AND TECHNICAL TERMS;

BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES;

and much other matter of permanent value, not contained in the The remaining copies are

present edition.

Reduced to 3/- post free.

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