Put a resolute hart to a steep hill. William Gowans, antiquary and bookseller. A lecture given on 12 December 1988… being the fourth Annual Sol M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography at Columbia (Book Arts Press Occasional Publication, 81)
New York, Book Arts Press of the School of Library Service, 1990
(24 cm), 55 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Account of the antiquarian bookseller of New York, William Gowans (1803-1870), whose customers included John Carter Brown and James Lenox, Washington Irving and Longfellow. Concludes with descriptions of Gowans’ various publications, and a list of his unpublished bibliographical productions, together with a location register. ‘The booklet has been published, with the ugliest title-page I have seen for many years…’ (from an otherwise appreciative notice in Quaerendo, volume 22, 1992, pp.61-62). Edition limited to 850 copies. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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- Subjects
- Bibliographers - Gowans (William), 1803-1870
- Authors/Creators
- Columbia University (New York), School of Library Service
- Stoddard, Roger Eliot, born 1935
- Other names
- Gowans, William, 1803-1870
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