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Lot 120
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] A Visit to the Bazaar...
London: Printed for J. Harris, 1818. First edition. 24mo. With half-title and 32 black and white illustrations. Original quarter red morocco over printed pictorial boards, significant wear to spine, with losses to spine ends, rubbing, soiling, upper corner partially worn away; spotting throughout; scattered soiling. Gumuchian 5755-56; Moon 956; NBL 674; Osborne II:744
A Visit to the Bazaar was published two years after the opening of John Trotter's indoor bazaar in Soho Square, London, and serves mainly as an advertisement for the merchants therein, including the "Bookseller" as the frontispiece.
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