John W. Lovell Co., NY, no date. [Circa 1890.] Oxford Edition - stated. Advertisement To Edition (1829); Preface to 3rd Edition (1814); General Preface (1829); Introduction (1829); Advertisement To Last English Edition (1871). Illustrated w/ full-page B&W frontis & Title Page. Blue cloth, embossed illustrated front cover & spine, decorative end-papers, blue letters against a gilt background. Spine bumping/small frays, hd & ft, corners. Previous owner's script signature/address, in heavy pencil, across the middle of the fff - no other markings. Page-ends & inner pages are all browned with age/poor paper quality. Book is slightly canted, but still tightly bound. Both hinges are sound. 466 pages.
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John W. Lovell Company (1878-1893)
John Wurtele Lovell began publishing on his own imprint in 1878 in New York. Lovell was well known as a publisher of books that were not protected by copyright laws. It reprinted cheap reprints for the masses both in series of paperbound and cloth volumes.
Lovell tried to combine all the publishers of cheap reprints into one consortium. This was done in 1890 as the United States Book Company. It went broke in 1893. It was the parent company of numerous publishing imprints including the international Book Company, National Book Company, Lovell, Coryell, and Company and more.
