This volume brings together extensive recollections of authors, publishers, auctioneers and booksellers in London from 1779 to 1853, based on the author's personal acquaintance with the prominent figures of the period. Engagingly written from a personal perspective, this book will be of interest to historians of literature and publishing.
An engaging book of literary reminiscences of the London publishing world in the period between 1779 and 1853.