A HUNDRED YEARS OF PUBLISHING: Being the story of Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
Pp. xviii+326, frontispiece with lettered tissue guard, plus 48 plates (1 folding, 3 on green paper - being facsimiles of original wrappers for Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby, and A Tale of Two Cities), plus 4 page facsimile (printed on green paper) of a programme for a Chapman & Hall Cricket Club supper & concert, index; demy 8vo; black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, lightly soiled and rubbed, corners bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; small initial stamp near top edge and bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing and offsetting; Chapman & Hall, London, 1930. First edition. *Centenary history of the publishers of Dickens and Trollope, with much information on both authors. Arthur Waugh (the Father of Evelyn) was Managing Director of Chapman & Hall from 1902 to 1930. Item #168486
Price: $75.00