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EDW. G. ALLEN'S

London Agency for American Libraries,

28 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

LONDON.

(FORMERLY RICH & SONS.)

EDW. G. ALLEN devotes himself entirely to library business. His long experience enables him to execute the orders of correspondents promptly, cheaply, and with thorough efficiency. His connection with all the Book Dealers in the United Kingdom gives him the command of the British Book Market, and qualifies him to serve his customers with special advantage, and to bring promptly under their notice all the stores of Literature, old and new, on sale in Great Britain.

Books Supplied at a Small Commission on the Cost Price, with the usual Trade deductions, and forwarded by the quickest and cheapest routes. Second-hand Catalogues by early Mails, and no Commission charged on Orders from them. Periodicals and Newspapers Posted Promptly.

No expensive sub-agencies at home or abroad. Foreign books on easy terms.

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Cheap and Durable for Circulating Libraries. Specially Strong for Books of Reference. Superior
Style for Works of Art. Imitation Antique for Rare Old Books. Calf Extra in Every Variety.
Best Half-Binding for General Library Use. Pamphlets Bound at Cheap Rates. Law-
Books in Law Calf. Cheap Binding In Cloth. Hard-Grained Roan, etc. Dilapi-
dated Binding Neatly Repaired. Deficiencies of Rare Books Supplied in
Exact Fac-Simile. Library Stamps to Order.

We have been, for the last twenty years, personally cognizant of Mr. Allen's faithfulness to the interests of his American customers. When a resident in Washington, ten years ago, we found that the immense Congressional Library largely supplied its shelves through Mr. Allen's London Agency. Many of the extensive libraries belonging to the Universities and Colleges in the East have also secured their Foreign Books from the same source, and we have heard from the officers of these Institutions frequent testimony to the scrupulous exactness with which their orders were always filled.

We cannot, therefore, do a greater service to the Colleges and Universities of the West, to which these presents shall come, than to advise that they employ this inexpensive agency for replenishing their Libraries with English Books."-PRESIDENT WELCH, Iowa State Agricultural College.

"No better indorsement of Mr. Allen's Agency is possible than the list of leading libraries that continue to use it. For 30 years, strict integrity and unexcelled facilities have held the oid and made new patrons. The very large business built up demands only a small commission instead of the customary to per cent. A library can safely entrust all its London orders to Mr. Allen without getting other estimates and feel sure that it is not making a mistake."-MELVIL DEWEY, State Library, New York.

Edw. G. Allen's American Library Agency,

COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

MEMBER AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

SPECIAL TERMS For large orders.

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CHAS. M. HIGGINS & CO., Mfrs., 170 Eighth St., Brooklyn, N. Y., U.S.A.

LONDON OFFICE: 106 CHARING CROSS ROAD.

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B. WESTERMANN & CO.,

812 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

(ESTABLISHED 1848.)

FOREIGN OFFICES AT LONDON, LEIPZIG, AND PARIS.

Agents by appointment to many of the largest American and Foreign College and Public Libraries.

SPECIAL TERMS FOR LARGE ORDERS.

Terms on direct application for the supply of Foreign and American Books and Periodicals. Weekly shipments by the fleetest steamers from England, Germany, and France. Periodicals supplied at lower rates than mail copies and in better shape for binding.

Rare Books and Sets of Serials procured at the lowest terms. Regular connections with Central and South America and all Oriental countries.

Binding done here and abroad in every style.

Auction Sales attended to.

The Catalogues of Foreign Dealers-English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish-furnished on application.

Monthly Bulletins of New Books issued regularly.

With the help of a most complete Bibliographical Outfit in all languages and on all subjects, and the experience of many years in this particular line, estimates can be furnished promptly and information given on topics of interest to Librarians.

Bibliographical Publications.

THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY. Estab-| lished in 1872, with which was incorporated the American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (established in 1852), by purchase from Mr. George W. Childs. Recognized as the representative of the publishing and bookselling interests in the United States. Contains full weekly record of American publications, with monthly indexes, etc. Subscription, $3.00 per annum, postpaid; single nos., to cts., postpaid.

THE LITERARY NEWS. An Eclectic Review of Current Literature. Published monthly, and containing the freshest news concerning books and authors; lists of new publications; reviews and critical comments; characteristic extracts; sketches and anecdotes of authors; courses of reading; bibliographical references; prominent topics of the magazines; portraits of authors, and illustrations from the newest books, etc., etc. Subscription, $1.00 per annum, postpaid; single nos., 10 cts.

THE AMERICAN CATALOGUE of books in print and for sale (including reprints and importations) July 1, 1876. Compiled (under the direction of F. LEYPOLDT) by LYNDS E. JONES. Subject-volume, 4to, half morocco, $15.00. [Author-and-title volume is out of print.]

THE AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 18761884. Books recorded (including reprints and importations) July 1, 1876-June 30, 1884. Compiled, under the editorial direction of R. R. BOWKER, by Miss A. I. APPLETON. 4to, half morocco. [Out of print.]

AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 1884-90. Compiled, under the editorial direction of R. R. BOWKER, by Miss A. I. APPLETON and others. 4to, half leather, $15.00.

THE ANNUAL AMERICAN CATALOGUE. Being the full titles, with descriptive notes, of all books recorded in THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY during the calendar year, with author, title and subject index, publishers' annual lists and directory of publishers, Published annually since 1886. 8vo, net, sheets, $3.00; half morocco, $3.50.1

AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 1890-1895. Sheets, $12.50; half morocco, $15.00. ($10 in sheets, and $12.50 in half morocco to subscribers paying in advance of publication.) In preparation.

THE ANNUAL LITERARY INDEX, including Periodicals, American and English Essays, BookChapters, etc., Special Bibliographies and Necrology of Authors. Edited by W. 1. FLETCHER and R. R. Bow. KER, with the co-operation of members of the American Library Association and of the Library Journal staff. 8°, cloth, $3.50.

THE PUBLISHERS' TRADE LIST ANNUAL. Large 8vo, with "Duplex Index," met. $2.00. Contains: The latest CATALOGUES OF AMERICAN PUB LISHERS, Contributed by themselves and arranged alphabetically by the firm-names and smaller lists at the end of the volume. These Lists, all bound in one volume, present in their combination so convenient and time-saving a working-tool as to make it indispensable to every one who has any interest in the purchase or sale of books.

THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL CATALOGUE includes a price-list of all the text books in use in the United States, arranged alphabeticaly by author's or editor's name, and a detailed subjectindex, referring from each specific subject to authors of books on that subject. 8vo, leatherette, 50 cts. THE ENGLISH CATALOGUE [Annual] containing a complete list of all the books published in Great Britain and Ireland in the calendar year, with index to subjects. A continuation of the London and British Catalogues. [London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.] 8vo, paper, net, $1.50. THE ENGLISH CATA LOGUE and THE ANNUAL AMErican CatalogUB bound in one volume, half leather, $5.00.

THE PROFESSION OF BOOKSELLING: a handbook of practical hints for the apprentice and bookseller. By A. GROWOLL, managing editor of THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY and author of "A Bookseller's Library." Pt. 1, 8°, bds., $2.00. Pt. 2, 8°, bds., $2.00. (Concluding part in preparation.)

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P. O. Box 943.

59 Duane Street, New York.

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PUBLISHERS AND LIBRARY AGENTS,

Having extensive experience in supplying PUBLIC LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, etc., at Home and Abroad, with Miscellaneous Requisites, Books (New and Second-hand), or Periodicals in all Languages, offer their Services to LIBRARIANS, SECRETARIES, AND OTHERS. Careful attention given to every detail. Exceptional Facilities for obtaining Foreign and Scarce Books. BINDING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION UNDERTAKEN. Periodicals and Newspapers Promptly Supplied as issued. Books Shipped to all parts of the World at Lowest Rates.

TERMS ON APPLICATION, ALSO LIST OF LIBRARY APPLIANCES, HANDBOOKS, ETC.

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THE BICYCLE STEP-LADDER CO.,

50 State Street, Chicago, Ill.

N. Y. Agency, 80 John St., N. Y.

THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.

5 and 7 East Sixteenth Street, New York,

MAKE a specialty of supplying public, private, and school LIBRARIES, for which

they have exceptional facilities through their connection with many of the largest houses as special agents, and by carrying the stock of all American Publishers.

They are pleased to give estimates at lowest rates on lists of proposed purchases, and solicit correspondence with Librarians and other bookbuyers.

This house is characterized by its Promptness, Carefulness, and Low Prices.

There will be sent to any address on application a topically arranged General Library List selected from the books of all publishers.

Telegraphic Address: BOOKMEN, LONDON.

H. SOTHERAN & CO.,

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Booksellers, Bookbinders, and Publishers, and General Agents in Europe for Private Bookbuyers and Public Institutions in America.

With exceptionally long experience in Library Agency, they can promise the best care, diligence, and discretion in everything relating to it, and in small matters as well as great. Established 1816.

A Monthly Catalogue of Second-Hand Books. Specimen Number post free.

140 Strand, W. C., and 37 Piccadilly, W.: London.

ESTABLISHED 1872

LONDON:

PARIS:

30 WELLINGTON ST., STRAND. 76 RUE DE RENNES.

LEIPZIG: HOSPITAL STR. 10.

GUSTAV E. STECHERT Purchasing Agent for Colleges & Libraries

810 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,

(TWO DOORS ABOVE GRACE CHURCH)

begs to call attention to his facilities for obtaining FOREIGN BOOKS and PERIODICALS at more economical rates THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN AMERICA OR EUROPE can offer, because:

He employs no Commission Agents, but has his own offices and clerks at London, Paris and Leipzig. He has open accounts with all the leading publishing houses in the world.

His experience enables him to give information at once about rare and scarce books.

He receives weekly shipments from England, France and Germany, and can thereby fill orders in quicker time.

MORE THAN 200 LIBRARIES FAVOR HIM WITH THEIR ORDERS.

SPECIAL REFERENCES,

"Mr. Stechert has for years furnished this Library with most of its periodicals and European books, and has bought for us many thousand volumes. Mr. Stechert's success is due to his constant personal attention to the business, and the reasonable terms he is able to offer. I consider a New York agent far preferable to reliance on foreign agents alone.'

GEO. H. BAKER, Librarian of Columbia College, New York.

"Seven years ago, in reorganizing the Columbia College library, I spent much time in trying to discover how to get our foreign books and periodicals with the least delay, trouble and expense. The result of the comparison of three methods, viz: ordering direct from foreign dealers, ordering through one agent in London, or ordering through one agent in New York showed us that it was to our advantage to give Mr. Stechert all our foreign orders, as he delivered in the library in a single package and with a single bill at as low cost as we were able with vastly greater trouble, to get a half dozen different packages in different bills from different places. In reorganizing the New York State Library, I opened the whole question anew, and the result of the comparison was the same as before, and we find that the library gets most for the time and money expended by taking advantage of Mr. Stechert's long experience, and the careful personal attention which he gives to our orders."

MELVIL DEWEY, Director of N. Y. State Library, Albany, N. Y.

"Mr. G. E. Stechert of New York has served us with fidelity in procuring English, French and German books, both new and second hand and also periodicals. His terins are more reasonable than any others that have come to our notice, while he has always guarded our interests very carefully. We find it a great convenience to have one agency in New York, represented by branches in different European countries. Prof. ARTHUR H. PALMER, Librarian of Adelbert College, Cleveland, O.

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"Your methods and facilities for doing business, as I have examined them here as well as at the Leipzig and London ends, seem to me admirably progressive and thoroughly live. I deal with you because I judge it for the advantage of this library to do so. If I did not, I should not. Up to date I am unable to find a method which is, all things included, so economical of time and money as dealing through you." ERNEST C. RICHARDSON, Librarian of College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J.

"Our library committee speaks in the highest terms of your services. You have not only saved us many dollars, but have mown an intelligent appreciation of our wants for which we thank you.' A. 8. COLLINS, Act. Librarian of Reynolds Library, Rochester, N. P.

GUSTAV E. STECHERT,

LONDON. PARIS. LEIPZIG. NEW YORK.

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