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REPLY1850

ENGELMANNS BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM

By ANOTHER FOREIGN BOOKSELLER.

The shortest reply to MR. DE MORGAN'S complaint against a foreign bookseller would be, that *Engelmann himself* printed for any of the purchasers of a large number of his Catalogues the titles to which MR. DE MORGAN objects so much. Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE MORGAN'S strictures? 1. Engelmann is not, strictly speaking, a bookseller, and his catalogues are not booksellers' catalogues in the sense in which that term is generally received here. He is a publisher and compiler (and an admirable one) of general classified catalogues for the use of the trade and…

Topics: Catalogues, Publishing, Bookselling, Classical Literature

Locations: London, Leipsic, Gottigen, Germany