'A bread and cheese bookseller'
Subtitle: the recollections of James Weatherley of Manchester c. 1790-1850
By: edited by Michael Powell and Terry Wyke ; general editor, Tim Thornton
Contributors: Powell, Michael, -2019, editor; Wyke, Terry, editor; Thornton, Tim, 1966- editor
Series: Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester -- 3rd ser., v. 55; Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester -- 3rd ser., v. 55.
Publisher: The Chetham Society
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780955427688
Subjects: Booksellers and bookselling; Biography; History
Notes: "This book provides an edition of a previously unpublished manuscript autobiography of a bookseller who lived and worked in Manchester in the first half of the nineteenth century ...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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: "This book provides an edition of a previously unpublished manuscript autobiography of a bookseller who lived and worked in Manchester in the first half of the nineteenth century.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..."; title: Inside jacket flap.