Some of my fondest kid memories are of lying on the top bunk in my room at our cottage on a rainy day and listening to the rain on the roof as I read the adventures of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.
The grade three teacher at my kids school was very artsy and she had a friend who was a bookbinder. She had all the students write an illustrated story and draw a fancy cover, then had them bound into books by her friend. What a fabulous thing to do - that was over thirty years ago and I am still talking about it!
I like going into bookstores, but I LOVE going into used book stores. Sometimes I luck out and find a book I wanted that is long out of print. There are still a few I am looking for, and booksellers all over town are keeping an eye out for them for me.
Do you have an ancestor who was a bookseller, bookbinder or publisher?
These are links to people in the book trade. Also look in trade and commercial directories.
Relevant Links
Alien members of the book trade during the Tudor period: 1906
American Book Trade Directory 1922
A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800 (limited view)
A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers, England, Scotland & Ireland, 1668-1725
Abstracts from the wills of English printers and stationers, 1492-1630
History of Booksellers, the old and the new 1873
Sketches of booksellers of other days - 1901
Sketches of some of the booksellers of the time of Dr Samuel Johnson, 1902
Dictionary of the Antiquarian Booksellers and dealers in second-hand books, US 1885
International directory of Antiquarian Booksellers - Internationales adressbuch der antiquar-buchhändler - 1906
The Booksellers' League: A history of its formation and ten years of its work US 1905
Abstracts from the wills and testamentary documents of printers, binders and stationers of Cambridge, 1504-1699
The International Directory of second-hand booksellers and bibliopile's manual 1894
Hodson's Booksellers, publishers and stationers' directory for London and Country 1855
Register of artists, engravers, booksellers, bookbinders, printers & publishers of New York City 1633-1820
Directory of second-hand booksellers & list of public libraries British and foreign 1891
The Victorian Book Trade
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