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Messrs. HOLMES & SON

Valuers & Accountants

TO BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, PRINTERS, NEWS-
PAPER PROPRIETORS, &c.

66 PATERNOSTER ROW,
Are instructed to sell the following businesses:—

Mr. A. M. BURGHES,
VALUER & ACCOUNTANT

To Publishers, Booksellers, Stationers, Printers, &c.
la PATERNOSTER ROW,

Is instructed to Sell the following Businesses :'O PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, &c.— sale. Profits proved at over £1,000 a year net. Capable investigation allowed. A most desirable opening for a gentleman of social position and journalistic experience. About £2,500 required.

BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY, of great increase under energetic managemeng for a

FANCY AND LIBRARY BUSINESS.-In excellent position in the West-end. In same hands 14 years. Good premises. Net profits, after payment of all expenses, £400 to £500 a year. About £1,500 re

TATIONERY,

quired for everything. Open to every investigation. STA! STATI

TATIONERY & FANCY BUSINESS. In Splendid Business Town, Midland Counties. In same hands over 20 years. Excellent premises in finest position. Returns last year £2,128. Large profits. Capital opening for adding Printing. All at valuation, about £1.200. Very genuine concern.

BOOKSELLING,

FANCY GOODS, &c.-Central West-end wellknown, high-class business. Magnificent premises; rent £315; long advantageous lease. Returns at About £5,000 resplendid profits £7,000 to £8,000. quired for all. Part payment might remain over three years. A very fine opening for a good man of business.

TATIONERY,

STATIONERY & FANCY BUSINESS. STAT

In leading Main Road position, North of London. In same hands about 17 years. Handsome shop, and good residence. Returns about £1,400 last year, at good profits. The Business is entirely managed by two young lady Assistants, but it is open to great increase. About £700 required.

BOOKSELLING,

&c.-Leading town in the Midlands. Central premises in good position. Rent £75. Returns nearly £2,000 a year. Full profits. About £1,000 required. Proprietor retiring. An old-established successful business.

TATIONERY, BOOKSELLING, &c.—

STATIONERY and PRINTING BUSI- premises only £75; long lease. Returns have reached

NESS.-In lovely district, about 20 miles from London. The business has not changed hands since 1817. Rent £27 (very low). Capital premises. A

thoroughly genuine business, producing a good living.

About £400 required.

BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY, and

PRINTING BUSINESS.-In one of the very best Towns, Midland Counties. A splendid old business. Established a century. Death cause of sale. About £2,500 required. An exceptionally favourable

chance.

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over £2,400 a year. Valuable agency attached. About £1,250 required. A very advantageous opening. TATIONERY, FANCY, &c.-Pleasant and prosperous South Coast Town. Handsome shop and large house. Rent £55. Can all be cleared Returns £12 a week at good profits. About £250 required; very safe.

by letting.

FANCY

PANCY GOODS, &c.-Northern Suburb. £45; shop and nine rooms. Returns at present £6 a week, have been more and could be improved. About £150 required. A profitable trade.

BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY,
LIBRARY, and FANCY TRADE. - In very BOOKSELLING, LIBRARY,

attractive suburb of London. Splendid premises, in
exceptional condition. Returns about £1,600 a year.
About £400 in cash, and small balance by instalments.

STATIONERY and FANCY BUSINESS.

In capital Town, within 25 miles of London. A

thoroughly genuine concern. Net profits £400 a year

after payment of every expense. Every investigation. Established 25 years. No daily newspaper trade. £800 in cash, and balance by instalments.

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BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY, and £450 required.

PRINTING BUSINESS. — In lovely district, Devonshire. Leading business in town. In same hands over 30 years. Returns about £2,000 at good profits. The freehold of the premises may be purchased. About £850 required. A very genuine concern.

TATIONERY, &c.-Very fine premises. First-class West-end position. Rent £100; long lease. Returns £1.000 a year, at good profits. About An excellent opening; capable of immense extension. Established 10 years. TATIONERY, FANCY, &c.-West-end, Central locality. Rent £50. Returns nearly £10 a week; can be increased. About £120 required for all. A good opening for an energetic young man with a small capital. TATIONERY,

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BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY,
LIBRARY, and FANCY BUSINESS. In lovely ST
district, within 10 miles of London. Business estab-
lished 60 years. A fine old concern. Returns about
£2,000, and increasing. About £1,100 required.

'Monthly Register' of over 150 Businesses for Disposal forwarded post-free on application to Messrs. HOLMES & SON, 66A Paternoster Row, E.C.

FANCY, &c. Busy suburb. Very nice house and shop. Rent ouly About £200 re£35. Returns nearly £10 a week. quired for all. A steady cash business. Can be much increased by energetic management.

'Monthly Register' of Businesses for Disposal forwarded post-free on application to Mr. A. M. BURGHES, 1A Paternoster Row, London, E.C.

NEW

EW AMERICAN BOOKS.-Importations received Every Fortnight, which include all the New Books of interest, in advance of, or immediately upon, American publication. Any work not in stock will be obtained within six weeks from order.

London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, LIMITED, English and American Booksellers and Publishers, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.

BOOKSELLERS WANTING ASSISTANTS.

BOOKSELLING and STATIONERY. good saleswoman, stock-keeper, and window

Wanted Lady Assistant, must be

dresser. Field's Library, Clifton, Bristol.

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TRAVELLERS.-Wanted, by a Publishing Firm, a GENTLEMAN calling on Booksellers and Stationers on Commission for all

TO BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS.

RE-ENGAGEMENT required by experienced Young Lady. Good references.-Address, J. W.,

3 Queen's Terrace, Camden Road, London, N.W. BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY, and

FANCY. SITUATION as Assistant required. Age 23, good references, eight years' experience in all branches of Trade.-Address, V. Smith, 205 Hall Lane, Bradford.

those parts of England East and West of Bir-BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY, and

mingham.-Address, with references, to G. K., 94 Ackerman Road, S.W.

BOOKSELLERS' ASSISTANTS WANTING
SITUATIONS.

SITU
ITUATION REQUIRED by Advertiser,
aged 39, at Desk or Counter; thorough know-
ledge of the trade.-H., Collyer Terrace, Gipsy

Road, West Norwood, S.E.

PUBLISHING and BOOKSELLING.—

A Gentleman with 10 years' experience in a leading London newspaper office is anxious to make a change. Age 27.- Address, G. R., Pub. lishers' Circular Office.

FANCY.-Wanted an ENGAGEMENT by competent Assistant. Good salesman and window dresser, age 27, good references.--A. B., c/o Mr. J. Clarke, Clifton Grove, Coultham Street, Lincoln.

BOOKSELLING and STATIONERY.three years' experience, good window dresser and salesman, used to library, good references.-G. T. Bunyard, The Nurseries, Ashford, Kent.

Wanted RE-ENGAGEMENT as JUNIOR,

TO PUBLISHERS and WHOLESALE

HOUSES.-Employment wanted by Advertiser, many years' references to well-known houses in the trade in which responsible positions have been held.-'Liber,' Publishers' Circular Office.

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PLAIN and FANCY STATIONERS.

TO BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, Wanted SITUATION as above by Advertiser and PRINTERS. Wanted, by Advertiser, who wishes to improve his present situation. with eleven years' experience, an ENGAGEMENT 8 years' experience in two good business houses, Good knowledge of modern books and school Good window dresser, stock keeper, and salesman, trade, neat book-keeper and correspondent. Ac- age 22 years. Tall, energetic, and obliging. customed to ordering, and the routine of a mis- First-class reference.-Apply, Sales,' c/o Pub cellaneous trade. Active and reliable. Moderate lishers' Circular Office, St. Dunstan's House, salary, excellent references.-Address, R. C., Fetter Lane, London, E.C.

Publishers Circular Office.

BOOKSELLING, STATIONERY, &c.—

Wanted by a Young Man (24), RE-ENGAGE

WANTED to APPRENTICE & YOUTH, MENT as Assistant, ten years' experience, good

aged 16, to a good class Bokselling and Stationery Business. Good home essential. Premium given.--Apply, A. N., c/o Roffey & Clark, Booksellers, 38 High Street, Croydon.

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salesman, stockkeeper, and window dresser, excellent references, moderate salary.-Address, G. Smith, 3 St. Andrew's Hill, Norwich.

TO BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS,

and NEWSAGENTS.-Young Man, age 22, secks SITUATION as Assistant, eight years' experience, good references.-Address, J. L., 7 Milburn Street, Blackpool.

TO BOOKSELLERS and STATIONERS. SITUATION. Good window dresser, salesman, Advertiser, aged 22, wishes to change his and stockkeeper, eight years' first-class experience, good references.-W. B. F., c/o Mr. Dandy, 54 Upper Talbot Street, Nottingham.

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ELECTROTYPES.

Messrs. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., Limited, Have prepared a List of Works from which they are willing to supply selections of Electros. This List they will be happy to forward to any bond fide purchaser.

Address-St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.

Now ready.

SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.

THE DIRECTORY OF SECOND-HAND BOOKSELLERS AND LIST OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Crown 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d. ; interleaved, 38.; large paper, crown 4to. Roxburghe, 5s. ; interleaved, 68.

JAMES CLEGG, Wet Rake, Rochdale.

London: ELLIOT STOCK, 62 Paternoster Row.

BOOKS FOR SALE.

Advertisements are inserted under this heading at 3d. per line, prepaid.

Before sending books or money, Subscribers should satisfy themselves as to the BONA FIDES of Correspondents.

Bridger, G., 78 Netherwood Road, W.
6s. Novels (14 sorts), 17s. dozen
28. Novels (50 sorts), 8s. dozen

18. Novels (70 sorts), 4s. dozen

10s. 6d. Novels, 1888 (4 sorts), 12s. dozen

Colwell, J., Devizes

Hoare's (Sir R. C.) Ancient History of South Wilts, fine copy, in russia, gilt edges, £8. 8s.

Knight's Pictorial History of England, 8 vols. imp. 8vo. original edit. new half-russia, £5

Martineau's History of Thirty Years' Peace, original cloth, uncut, 2 vols. imp. 8vo. £1. 148.

The Building News, from Jan. 1867 to Nov. 1886, nearly 20 years, clean as new, a few numbers missing, £3

Hayes, W., Clifton Gardens, Margate
Dickens' Little Dorrit, 1857, 158.

Somner's Antiquities of Canterbury, 1640, 12s. 6d.
Johnson's Dictionary, 3 vols. 1827, folio, 12s. 6d.

Chesterfield's (Lord) Letters to his Son, 4 vols. 1774, 10s. 6d.
La Fontaine's Fables, in parts, Doré's illustrations, 10s.
Anderson's Scottish Nation, in parts. 10s. 6d.

Knight's London, 3 vols. 1841, 12s. 6d.
Loudon's Encyclopædia of Plants, 8s. 6d.
Ireland's History of Kent, 4 vols. 30s.

Brayley's History of Middlesex, 5 vols. 30s.
Glover's History of Derby, 2 vols. 12s. 6d.
Smith's Wealth of Natious, 3 vols. 7s. 6d.
Gil Blas, 3 vols. 7s. 6d.
Froude's Life of Carlyle, 58.

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Hayes, W., Clifton Gardens, Margate

BOOKS FOR SALE-continued.

Historical Miscellany, 5 vols. 12s. 6d.

Morris' Epicurean, Turner's vignettes, 68.
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 2 vols. 15s.
Boaden's Life of Mrs. Jordan, 2 vols. 1831, 10s. 6d.
Congreve's Works, 3 vols. 1710, 10s. 6d.
Foote's Dramatic Works, 2 vols. 1797, 7s. 6d.
Houlston, R. F., The Library, Chippenham

Graphic, Vols. 1 to 37, extra gilt cloth, gilt edges (21s.), for 10s. 6d. each

Paul, J. F., Bury St. Edmund's

Odyssey and Iliad, Greek text, 2 vols. diamond type (Pickering, 1831), uncut, orig. binding. Offers requested

W.

Potter, R., & Sons, Ogleforth, or Mr. R. Haughton, Subscription Library, York

The Athenæum, in monthly parts, for the years 1866 to 1873 inclusive

Ridgway, A., 3 Union Street, Gravesend

Trollope's (A.) Thompson Hall (18.), 80 copies, 3d. Robinson's (Phil) Indian Garden Series (18.), 70 copies, 2d.

Tittmann, C., 3 Seestrasse, Dresden

Two copies of Bohn's Catalogue of Books, 1841. Will take first offer

GLAISHER'S

NEW GENERAL CATALOGUE OF REMAINDERS FOR 1888 Is now ready, and can be had on application.

IT CONTAINS

MANY IMPORTANT BOOKS, OFFERED AT A GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE BY WILLIAM GLAISHER, Wholesale and Export Bookseller, 265 High Holborn, London.

BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE.

Note.-It must be distinctly understood that lists cannot be inserted for others than subscribers except at a charge of 6d. per line, prepaid. Books in Print are not Advertised for, but must appear in the ordinary Column Advertisements, and at the same rate.

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Arnold's Literature and Dogma. Best edit.

Grindon's (L. H.) Life, its Nature &c.

Abbott's Through Nature to Christ

Brotherton, G., 36 Hart Street, Burnley

Lizars' Anatomy. Coloured plates

Wordsworth's (Bp.) Works on Old and New Testaments

Singers and Songs of the Church

Acton's Diseases of the Urinary Organs. Coloured
Waugh's Works. 10-vol. edit. Small paper

Brough, W., & Sons, 8 Broad Street Corner, Birmingham
Arnold's Friendship's Garland

Urquhart's Pillars of Hercules, 2 vols.

Gavin's Master-key to Popery

Knight's Pictorial Shakspeare
Wilkinson's Egypt

Chemical Soc. Journal. Dec. 1887 and Supplementary No. Brown & Co., Salisbury

Carlyle's French Revolution. Library elit.

Church Congress Reports. 1863, 1864

Huxley's Man's Place in Nature

Batsford, B. T., 52 High Holborn, London

Fergusson's Modern Styles of Architecture

Lecomte's Railways

Holtzapffel's Turning. Vol. 3

Naval Architects' Trans.

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Vols. 13, 16, 23, 27, and Index 1860

Stuart's Steam Engine, 2 vols.

Blackledge, W., 5 Bishop's Court, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.
Any Works on Fencing and Duelling, English or Foreign
Fullarton's Parliamentary Gazetteer, cloth. 1847. Part 4
Knight's Pictorial History of England. Vol. 2, George III.
Blackwell, B. H., 50 & 51 Broad Street, Oxford
Wyon's Queen Anne, 2 vols.

Edgeworth's Ormonde

Thirty Thousand Thoughts (K. Paul)

Browne's Britannia's Pastorals

Chamberlayne's Pharronida, 3 vols.

Boyveau, Vre. J., 22 Rue de la Banque, Paris
Bungener's Priest and the Huguenot
Brassey's British Navy

Humphrey's Litanies. Ebony-like binding. 1849 (?)
Life of Our Lord. Ebony-like binding

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Punch. Vols. 25, 36, 41. Original parts or cloth
Brown, W., & Co. (Ltd.), 38-40 St. Mary Are, London, E.C.
Gmelin's Chemistry, about 13 vols. (Cavendish Society)
Key to De Pourquet's Spanish Trésor (Simpkin & Marshall)
Bryce, W., Bookseller, 54A Lothian Street, Edinburgh
Wilson's Prehistoric Man, 2 vols.

Church of England Magazine. Vols. 49, 51, 52, 53
Stephen's Digest of Evidence

Bumpus, T. B., 2 George Yard, Lombard Street, London, E.C.
Newall's Highlands of India, 2 vols. 1882

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BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE-continued.

Burns & Oates (Limited), 28 Orchard Street, W.

Burke's Peerage &c. 1887. Secondband
Sancta Sophia

Tronson's Conferences (Kenmare Society)

Carson Brothers, 7 Grafton Street, Dublin Gilbert's Streets of Dublin. Vol. 2

Dent, W., 34 Southampton Road, Kentish Town, London, N.W. Constable's Miscellany. Vol. 4

Martin's Prince Consort's Life. Vols 1, 2

Cassell's British Poets, 8vo. Parts 13, 24, 46, 50, 51, 108, 111, 128, 129

Mechanics' Magazine. After first 6 vols.

Thompson's Natural History of the Birds of Ireland. Vol. 3 Diack, W., 20 Schoolhill, Aberdeen

Ossianic Society's Transactions. Vol. 2
Rink's Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
Hayes' Land of Desolation

Cassell & Co. (Limited), Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.
Taylor's (Jeremy) Holy Living and Holy Dying

Clarke & Hodgson, 5 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester
Avancini, Vita et Doctrina Jesu. 1872 (Rivingtons)
Campan's Life of Marie Antoinette

Collins, W., 21 King Street, Stroud, Glos.
Cramer's Catena ad Romanos

Theodoret's Ecclesiastical History (Bagster)
Fisher's Notes and Recollections of Stroud
Partridge's (Stroud) Dyeing Textile Fabrics

Collins, W. P., 157 Great Portland Street, London, W.
Suffolk's Micro-Manipulation

Mackie's Guide to Folkestone. 1st edit.

Diodorus Siculus. English translation
Carpenter's Microscope. 1882

Colwell, J., Devizes

Life of Thos. Assheton Smith

Epictetus, translated by Elizabeth Carter

Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, North

Master Humphrey's Clock. Original edit. Vol. 3

Wilts Archæological Magazine. Any odd Nos. after 28

Combridge & Co., 18 Grafton Street, Dublin
Raglan Castle

Napier's Peninsular War, 8vo.

Villon's Poems. 1878 edit.

Lodge's Irish Baronetage

Burke's Extinct Peerage and Baronetage

Praed's Poems. 2-vol. edit.

Temple Bar. Vols. 1871 to 1881

Cornish Brothers, 37 New Street, Birmingham
Arundo's Practical Fly-Fishing. 1849
Angler's Eight Dialogues. 1758

Kentish Angler.

1804

Wells' Contemplative Angler. 1842 or 1853 Cornish, J., & Sons, 297 High Holborn, London Tale of Two Cities, original cloth. 1st edit. Robinson's Man she Cared for, 3 vols. Andersen's Modern Horsemanship Susan Fielding (Bentley)

White's (Walter) Mont Blanc and Back

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Browning (Robert). Any vols. cheap

Dickinson, R. D., 89 Farringdon Street, London, E.C.

Calvin Translation Society, viz.: Corinthians, 2 vols. ; Philippians to Thessalonians; Hebrews; Galatians and Ephesians; Timothy to Philemon; Catholic Epistles Wilson's (Prof. H. H.) Works. Vol. 2 (Trübner) Liechtenstein's (Princess) Holland House, 8vo. Vol. 2 Pick on Memory

Dobson, F., 122 Chippenham Road, W.

Contemporary Review. 1866, 1867. Any numbers or vols. Drummond's Draughts

Wiley's Draughts Rousseau's Emilius Sully's Sensation Leighton's Paris

Dodsworth, F. & W., 17 Collingwood Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Pratt's Flowering Plauts. Vol. 4 only

Whitfield's Reflections, Song of Solomon

Strickland's Queens of England, 8vo. 1840-48. Vols. 10, 11, 12 Tattersall's Lakes of England, 8vo. 1836

Wilkes' United States Expedition, 2 vols. (Nat. Illus. Lib.)
Cathedral Churches (London Pub. Company)

Douglas & Foulis, 9 Castle Street, Edinburgh
Blackie's Homer and the Iliad. Vol. 1

Burton's Zanzibar, City &c., 2 vols. 8vo. 1872
Cruikshank's Life, by Jerrold. Vol. 1
Guillemard's Cruise of the Marchesa,' 2 vols.

Hill's (Sir Rowland) Life. Vol. 2, or complete
Hugo's Toilers of the Sea, &c. Early 1-vol. edits.
Lamartine's Mary Queen of Scots

Lange's History of Materialism. Vol. 2

Riddell's (Mrs. J. H.) Novels. Early 1-vol. edits.

Theologia Germanica. 1874

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Farrant & Frost, Aberdare

Boy's Own Paper. Nov. 1881; Jan. 1882
St. Nicholas. Nov. and Dec. 1886

Freestone & Knapp, 4 The Poultry, Nottingham

Helps' (Sir A.) Works. 1st edits. Any.

Gilbert's (J.) Art and its Scope (Jackson & Walford) Rhymes for the Nursery. 1850 (Clark & Co.)

Ford, T., Hill Crest, Forest Hill, S.E.

Ruskin's Modern Painters. Vols. 3, 4, 5
Stones of Venice. Any vol.
teven Lamps of Architecture
Oxford Prize Poems. 1839 (F. Vincent)
Pickwick Papers. Any odd number

Gant, S. E., 39 Royal Avenue, Belfast
Palmer's Entire Devotion

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