Handbill advertisement headed 'The Old Boys' Book Club & Circulating Library'.
Author:
J. J. Wilson, Secretary, The Old Boys' Book Club & Circulating Library, Seaforth, Liverpool
Publication details:
Undated. Address given as 51 Seaforth Road, Seaforth, Liverpool.
£100.00
SKU: 7698
Printed in red ink on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 27 x 21 cm. Text complete and clear, on aged paper with wear to margins. Headed 'The Old Boys' Book Club & Circulating Library, 51 Seaforth Road, Seaforth, Liverpool.' Attractively printed in a variety of types and point sizes. Under the heading is the word 'WANTED.' Followed by twenty-one lines of wants, beginning 'Old Boys' Books, Penny Dreadfuls, Old Penny Illustrated Romances of all kinds printed before 1885. Those published LATER than 1885 are USELESS.' The admonition is repeated at the end, followed by '1840 to 1885 wanted ONLY.' 'Books wanted' include 'Sons of Britannia', 'Sixteen String Jack', 'Romances published by Lloyd, Fox, Pierce, Dicks, Lea and others'.