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

Agency for the following Libraries and many others:

Colorado University.
Johns Hopkins University.
Philadelphia Library Co.
Peabody Institute, Baltimore,
University of Pennsylvania.
University of Toronto, Can.
Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn.
Yale University.

Minneapolis Public Library.

Library of Congress, Washington.

Libraries of Parliament, Ottawa, Toronto,

and Quebec.
Amherst College.
Boston Public Library.
Brooklyn Library.

Brown University.
Cornell University.

Enoch Pratt Free Library.
California University.

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Cheap and Durable for Circulating Libraries. Specially Strong for Books of Reference. Superior 8tyle 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. Books In Law Calf. Cheap Binding In Cloth. Hard-Grained Roan, etc. Dilapl 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 10 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.

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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.]

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AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 1890-1895. In preparation.

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