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This is a partial list of booksellers in Boston, Massachusetts.

Booksellers in Boston

17th century

Heaven's alarm to the world. By Increase Mather. Boston: Printed for Samuel Sewell. And to be sold by John Browning at the corner of the Prison-Lane next to the Town-House. 1682

18th century

19th century

Bradford and Read, Law Book-Sellers. 58 Cornhill Boston, 1811
Samuel T. Armstrong, 1811
Lincoln & Edmands, 1815
Old Corner Bookstore, Washington St.
Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 1823
Fetridge & Co., 1852
William Hyde & Co., 134 Washington St., 1832
Lauriat's, Washington St., 1872
Otis Clapp, Beacon St., 1861
William H. Piper & Co., Washington St.
Mistaken Identity by George H. Coes, issued by Walter H. Baker, Winter St., Boston, 1893

20th century

21st century

See also: List of independent bookstores in the United States and List of bookstore chains

Lucy Parsons Center, Columbus Ave., 2007

See also

Citations

  1. ^ William S. Reese (1990), The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers and Collectors, American Antiquarian Society, archived from the original on 2015-01-19
  2. ^ Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," in Printing and Society in Early America. Joyce et al. eds., Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983
  3. ^ a b "George Talbot Goodspeed" (PDF), Proceedings, American Antiquarian Society, 1997
  4. ^ Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, ed. Lois Brown (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 152n65
  5. ^ Bookstores' demise a sad chapter. Boston Globe. May 23, 1999.
  6. ^ R. S. Kindleberger. Brattle's new home; 3 doors away on West St. Boston Globe, Feb 10, 1980. pg. 1
  7. ^ Wendy Fox. Q.& A. with Ken Gloss, owner of the Brattle Book Shop. Boston Globe. Nov 16, 1997. pg. 2
  8. ^ Sam Allis. Secondhand gold; Bookshop's storied history speaks volumes. Boston Globe. Aug 26, 2007

General and cited references

17th-century
18th-century
19th-century
20th-century