Call Number:

C1425

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.4 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1822-1852 (inclusive)

Abstract:

Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers was a bookstore, publisher, and subscription library in London in the early to mid-19th century. Consists of an archive of 113 original notes and letters largely composed by British aristocrats or their personal secretaries and addressed to Messrs. Andrews, Booksellers, at 167 New Bond Street, requesting or returning books from the circulating library. The collection contains single letters addressed to Mr. Lodge, Mr. Rooke, and Messrs. Harding. The correspondence also includes requests for stationery, music, and the purchase of new books.

Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers was a bookstore, publisher, and subscription library in London in the early to mid-19th century.

John Andrews may have worked for John Ebers' Circulating Library in Old Bond Street before opening at 167 New Bond Street, probably around 1820, when he started advertising for the J. Andrews Circulating Library in various literary gazettes. Titles printed for "J. Andrews, New Bond St." were published as early as 1823, and from around 1827, he and Charles Andrews are listed in different directories as booksellers at the same address. From the 1840s, "Mrs. Andrews" or Eliza Andrews is listed as "bookseller and librarian" at the same address. Andrews Circulating Library operated until the 1850s as evidenced by newspaper advertisements.

Consists of an archive of 113 original notes and letters largely composed by British aristocrats or their personal secretaries and addressed to Messrs. Andrews, Booksellers, at 167 New Bond Street, requesting or returning books from the circulating library. The collection contains single letters addressed to Mr. Lodge, Mr. Rooke, and Messrs. Harding. The correspondence also includes requests for stationery, music, and the purchase of new books.