'A bread and cheese bookseller' : the recollections of James Weatherley of Manchester c. 1790-1850 / edited by Michael Powell and Terry Wyke ; general editor, Tim Thornton.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index. "This book provides an edition of a previously unpublished manuscript autobiography of a bookseller who lived and worked in Manchester in the first half of the nineteenth century ... his recollections provided a vivid portrait of the hand-to-mouth existence of street sellers and small shopkeepers who in Manchester as elsewhere played a critical role in the book trade..."--Inside jacket flap.
Series:
Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester, 0080-0880 ; 3rd ser., v. 55
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