'A bread and cheese bookseller' : the recollections of James Weatherley of Manchester c. 1790-1850 /
Weatherley, James,1790-1850.
Powell, Michael.
Wyke, Terry.
Thornton, Tim.general editor.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.
"This book provides an edition of a previously unpublished manuscript autobiography of a bookseller who lived and worked in Manchester in the first half of the nineteenth century. ... his recollections provided a vivid portrait of the hand-to-mouth existence of street sellers and small shopkeepers who in Manchester as elsewhere played a critical role in the book trade..."--Inside jacket flap.
Weatherley, James, 1790-1850
Booksellers and bookselling