Engraved illustrated trade card of the booksellers J. Sabin and Sons.

Printed on one side of a piece of thick wove paper, roughly 11.5 x 9 cm. Dimensions of image 9.5 x 6.5 cm. A little grubby, but good. An attractive production, with a mediaeval-style illustration of two flying fish flanking a tree on the branch of which is hung a shield with the words 'Books & Prints | Old & New. | 84, Nassau Street | New York. | 14 York Street | Covent Garden | London.' In gothic type at foot: 'J. Sabin and Sons.' The card must date from after 1864, when the Nassau Street shop was established, and before Sabin's retirement in 1879, when the firm's name was changed to 'J. Sabin's Sons'. For more information about Sabin, see his entry in Robert Wedgeworth's 'World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services'.