The fascination of books
Subtitle: with other papers on books [and] bookselling
By: by Joseph Shaylor.
Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London
Subjects: Booksellers and bookselling.
Table of contents: value: The fascination of books.-  Booksellers and bookselling.-  The Christmas book.-  Bookselling and some of its humours.-  Early Victorian bookselling.-  Some old libraries.-  The revolution in educational literature.-  The evolution of the bookseller.-  On the selling of books.- Nineteenth century book distributing.-  Publishing.-  Booksellers' trade dinner sales.-  The use and abuse of book titles.-  On the life and death of books.-  Fiction, its issue and classification.-  Bookselling and the public.-  Hymns, hymn writers, and hymn books.-  Reprints and their readers.