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John Smith & Son is a United Kingdom academic bookseller, based in Ringwood. Founded in 1751, it is the oldest bookselling company in the English-speaking world. [1] [2] It was based for many years at 57–61 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, which was also its principal retail outlet. A circulating library (established by Smith as Glasgow's first ...
The company built an undisputed reputation as one of the best antiquarian booksellers in all of Great Britain and Ireland in the mid 1900s. It boasted a number of prominent customers, including Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, Lord Alanbrooke, and Michael Foot, as well as British and European royalty, and public institutions such as universities and the British Museum.
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The magazine began as a column in Publishers Weekly called "Antiquarian Bookseller"; in 1948, it spun off as a separate publication, at a time when there was a flourishing mail-order business in out-of-print and second-hand books. [4] Malkin purchased the magazine from Bowker in 1953. It first appeared under its final title in 1967. [5]
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) is the senior trade body in the Ireland and Great Britain for dealers in antiquarian and rare books, manuscripts and allied materials. The ABA organises a number of book fairs every year including its flagship fair held at Olympia, London in May, which features exhibitors from all around the world ...
[15] [16] In 1993 the antiquarian bookselling business became an entirely separate enterprise and there is now no connection between the two companies. [17] Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited was based in Bloomsbury [18] until March 2015, when it was acquired by the Taylor & Francis Group and became an imprint of Routledge. [19] [20]
He was educated at the Southwestern Academy, Glasgow and trained as a bookseller with James Maclehose, bookseller to the University of Glasgow. [1] He emigrated to New Zealand as a young man, and, two years later (in 1882), he relocated to Sydney, where he found employment at the local branch of George Robertson and Company, booksellers of ...
Maggs Bros. Ltd. is one of the longest-established antiquarian booksellers in the world, established in 1853 by Uriah Maggs, [1] born c. 1828 in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. All four of Uriah's sons eventually joined the business, taking over on his retirement in 1894.