The Autolycus of the bookstalls
By: by Walter Jerrold.
Publisher: J.M. Dent
Published: 1902
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Book collecting; Bibliography
Notes: Bibliographical miscellanies. "Appeared during the past few years in different London newspapers."
Title vignette; head and tail pieces.
Table of contents: title: An Autolycus of the bookstalls.; title: Some kerbstone libraries.; title: Of end pages.; title: Of autograph copies.; title: Some "pirate" treasures.; title: A fountain of lies Cromwellian [Flagellum: or The life and death, birth and burial of O. Cromwell. London, 1672] Death-bed repentance [Some passages of the life and death of ... John, earl of Rochester ... by Gilbert Burnet.  London 1680]; title: A political "last will" [The political will and testament of ... Cardinal Duke de Richelieu. London, 1695]; title: The moralist at the breakfast table [Note on the eighteenth century English essayists]; title: In re Rasselas and another [Candide]; title: Della Crusca and co. (limited); title: How doth the; title: [A note on "Divine and moral songs for children," first pub. 1715, containing the familiar "How doth the little busy bee," etc.]; title: A penn'orth of Cobbett.; title: "S.T.C." on criticism.; title: A last "find" in booksellers' row [The plea of the midsummer fairies ... by Thomas Hood. London, 1827]; title: A big book [Southey's British poets]; title: The most bookful of laureates [Southey's The doctor]; title: "W.M.T." as balladmonger.; title: The laureate's "three-decker" [Alfred Austin's An artist's proof]; title: "The twilight of the gods."; title: Après moi"; title: [On the disperal of book collections]