A Romance of the Rostrum being the business life of Henry Stevens and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years

Description:

First edition. Scarce. The history of Stevens' auction rooms in Covent Garden, which sold many natural history collections during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth, worn, gt lettering to spine. Ex-lib. with usual plates, stamps and markings. One plate at some point re-attached, residue of labels to inner margin of the verso of the plate and to the margin of facing page; occasional foxing.