CATALOGUE of an Interesting Collection of Miscellaneous English
and Foreign Books, chiefly in fine condition, now on sale for
ready money, by THOMAS GEORGE STEVENSON, Antiquarian and
Historical Bookseller, 87. Prince's Street, Edinburgh. (Second
door west of the New Club.)
"Whose shop is well-known, or ought to be so, by all the true
lovers of curious little old smoke-dried volumes."--Chambers'
_Illustrations of the Author of Waverly_.
"This shop is now, I believe, the only existing 'cask' in this
city which preserves the true ancient Wynkyn de Worde
'odour.'"--Dr. Dibdin's _Tour through Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 503.
BOOK PLATES--Heraldic Queries answered; Family Arms found, and every
information afforded. Drawing of Arms, 2_s._ 6_d._; Painting ditto,
5_s._; Book Plate Crest, 5_s._; Arms, &c. from 20_s._; Crest on Card
Plate, and One Hundred Cards, 8_s._; Queries answered for 1_s._ Saxon,
Mediæval, and Modern Style Book Plates. The best Authorities and MS.
Books of thirty-five years' practice consulted. Heraldic Stamps for
Linen or Books, with reversed Cyphers and Crests. Apply, if by letter,
enclosing stamps or post office order, to JAMES FRISWELL (Son-in-law to
J. Rumley, publisher of "The Crest Book," "Heraldic Illustrations"),
Heraldic Engraver, 12. Brooke Street, Holborn.
MILLER'S LONDON LIBRARIAN AND BOOK-BUYER'S GAZETTE: a Monthly List of
Valuable SECOND-HAND BOOKS, in all Departments of Ancient and Modern
Literature, offered at very low prices for ready money. No. 2. for 1852,
ready this day, gratis to Book-buyers.
The Advertiser begs to call attention to his List as the best, the
cheapest, and the most expeditious method of obtaining useful and
uncommon Works in the various departments of Literature. One
Thousand different books are by this means submitted Monthly to
the inspection and selection of Librarians, Book Committees, Heads
of Literary Institutions, and Book-buyers generally.--Part I. of
the Present Number contains History, Biography, Poetry, and the
Drama, with Illustrated Books. Part II., an extensive collection
relative to Agriculture, Botany, Gardening, Geology, Mineralogy,
Conchology, and Fossils, with Natural History generally.
JOHN MILLER, 43. Chandos Street, Trafalgar-square.