Altre informazioniHe was said to have "imported more foreign books into the United States ... than any other person" and to have been in business for "just fifty years" at the time of his death in April 1863. "His custom was to buy books in London—sometimes almost by whole ship-loads, four hundred or five hundred cases—in the summer season, and bring them over ... during the winter and spring.... In this way he had crossed the Atlantic about two hundred times, and ... calculated roughly that he had imported over three million volumes of books." [American Publishers' Circular, May 1, 1863, p. 8]
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Altre informazioniHe was said to have "imported more foreign books into the United States ... than any other person" and to have been in business for "just fifty years" at the time of his death in April 1863. "His custom was to buy books in London—sometimes almost by whole ship-loads, four hundred or five hundred cases—in the summer season, and bring them over ... during the winter and spring.... In this way he had crossed the Atlantic about two hundred times, and ... calculated roughly that he had imported over three million volumes of books." [American Publishers' Circular, May 1, 1863, p. 8]
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