Descriptive Catalogue of Books; Embracing the Progressive Series and the National Series of Text Books, for Colleges, Academies, and Schools.
Boston and New York: 1859. Item #782 8vo. 200 x 120 mm., [7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches]. 71 pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued; corners show some paper deterioration and minor chipping, text block shows some tide marks in the upper margin. Sound and not unattractive. Joint publisher’s catalogue containing books in mathematics, bookkeeping, readers, vocabularies, Greek and Roman classics, arithmetic, rhetoric, history, and all subject relating to the education of America’s young.
Includes a very interesting preface by Bazin and Ellsworth that outlines their method of bookselling and the markets which they are pursuing. This catalogue marks a change in business as they “have disposed of many of our old plates in order that we may devote our entire energies and means to the circulation of our late and much improved School Books – books which we believe to be fully up to the standard now required, and in every respect peculiarly adapted to schools of all grades.”.
Price: $75.00