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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Catalogue of books in quires, with some valuable articles, elegantly bound, to be sold by auction to the booksellers of London and Westminster at the London Coffee-House |
| Date | 24 Jan 1812 |
| Document Type | Financial Record; Advertisement |
| Theme | Literature and Poetry; Business and Finance |
| Description | The head of page one has been annotated 'London Coffee House 24 January 1812' and 'Mr Murray'. The printed title has been corrected in manuscript to show 'twenty-4th of January'. Each item on the list has against it an annotation giving the price of the item. At the foot of page three is a fine doodle of, presumably, a Georgian bookseller of somewhat menacing aspect. A second, indistinct doodle is at the head of page four. |
| Keywords | bookselling finance business competitor sales advertising illustration |
| People | Murray, John II |
| Places | London; United Kingdom |
| NLS Collection | Business and Legal papers but in the Ownership and Property section |
| NLS Reference | MS.43010 |
| Copyright and Source Archive | The National Library of Scotland |