The international directory of booksellers and bibliophile's manual, including lists of the public libraries of the world, publishers, book collectors, learned societies and institutions, theological colleges, and a bibliography of works of reference
By: edited by James Clegg.
Contributors: Clegg, James, 1843-
Edition: Fifth edition
Publisher: Printed and published by James Cleeg [sic], Aldine Press
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Rochdale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Directories.; Booksellers and bookselling -- Directories.; Learned institutions and societies -- Directories.; Bibliographical literature -- Bibliography.; Bibliography of bibliographies.
Genres: Directories.; Bibliography.
Other titles: Clegg's Directory of booksellers
Notes: Lower endpapers are paginated 30-31.

"The first germ of this book was sown in the year 1886, and brought forth a tiny volume of 72 pages - an imperfect catalogue of Second-hand Book Dealers in the United Kingdom and nothing more; the second edition, appearing in 1888, rose to 174 pages; the third, in 1891, assumed an international character, and in the attempt to "put a girdle round about the earth," grew to 376 pages; the fourth, in 1894, exhibited further signs of development; and the present, the fifth of the series, with enlargements in all sections, has expanded to 420 pages ... This edition of the Directory, in addition to the usual contents, supplies the names and addresses of firms dealing in NEW BOOKS -- a large increase of matter which has necessitated the use of rather smaller type in the first division of the work."--Preface.