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C. N. Caspar (Milwaukee), 1889
28. Caspar's Directory Of The American Book, News And
Stationery Trade
Wholesale And Retail Comprising The Publishing,
Subscription, Retail Book,
Antiquarian, News, Map, Art, Music,
Manufacturing, Jobbing and Retail Sta-
tionery, Blank Book and Paper
Manufacturing Business, and General Jobbers in
Wis…. Price, $12.00 Net.
Milwaukee: C. N. Caspar's Book Emporium. London: B. F. Stevens. New
York: Office of "The Publishers' Weekly." Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus.
1889.
[I–III] IV–VII [VIII–IX] X–XIII [XIV–XVI]
XVII–XVIII, "Addenda"
[1] 2–32 32a–32g, ad [32h],
"Part I [Caspar's Directory of the Book, News
and Stationery Trade and
Kindred Branches]" [33] 34–570, "Part II [Digest
of the
Trade-Lists of the American Book Publishers]" [571] 572–594, "Part
III [Digest of the Trade Lists of the American Manufacturing and
Jobbing
Stationers, Blank Book and Paper-Makers, etc.]" [595]
596–613 [614], "Part
IV [Geographical Classification]" [615]
616–1040, "Part V [The Trade
Branches in the Directory,
Alphabetically Arranged]" [1041] 1042–1261, "Part
VI [Theory
and Practice of the Book Trade and Kindred Branches]" [1262]
1263–1381 [1382], "Analytical Index" [1383] 1384–1392, advts.
1393–1434 pp.
Frontispiece and further ads inserted throughout.
Leather spine and corners, cloth
sides.
Published in two forms: (A) regular edition, as above, bound in 1 vol.; (B)
travelers' edition, bound in 2 vols., and identified as such on an
additional title
page that appears at the front of the second volume
(which begins with Part IV):
"Caspar's Directory Of The American Book,
News and Stationery Trades, And
Kindred Branches. Travelers'
Edition…. Copyrighted, 1889, By C. N. Caspar,
Milwaukee,
Wis."
Noted as "gives the addresses of 50,907 firms in one alphabet" (i.e. in Part
I) in
A. Growoll, The Profession of
Bookselling, Part 1 (1893), p. 65.
First advertised in PW 22 Jan. 1887 at $8 for subscribers and
$12 for non-
subscribers. The process of compilation and
publication can be traced in
notes in PW 22 Jan. 1887, 25 June 1887, 3
Dec. 1887, 14 April 1888, 10 Nov.
1888, and 26 Jan. 1889. Advertised
in PW 9 Feb. 1889 with several specimen
pages. Noted as "at last
ready" in PW 27 July 1889. A copy at MH (form A)
received 30 July
1889. Listed in PW 3 Aug. 1889 at $12. Noted in Literary World
28 Sept. 1889 and PW 19 Oct. 1889.
References: Growoll 91; Ulrich & Küp, p.
180; A. Growoll, A Bookseller's Library
(1891), p. 45; NUC (NC 0486084); OCLC (40206592; 34813761 [travelers'
editon]; 13755063, 22087059, 22750649 [all microform]; and 4678720
[dated
1899, almost surely a cataloging error]).
Copies seen: KCo (form A), MH (form A, rebacked);
MnHi (form A); NN (form B,
disbound, missing ads pp.
1423–1434); MBW (form A).
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