Lilly, Wait, and Company

Overview

Works:	44 works in 64 publications in 1 language and 486 library holdings
Genres:	Juvenile works Fiction Guidebooks History Chronologies Life skills guides Controversial literature Periodicals Textbooks Anecdotes
Roles:	Bookseller, Publisher, Printer

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Most widely held works about Lilly, Wait, and Company

Catalogue of law, medical, classical, school, and miscellaneous standard books & stationary, comprising the stock of Lilly, Wait, and Company, no. 121, Washington Street, Boston. : To be sold by auction, without reserve. Sale to commence on Tuesday, 16th December, 1834. Of many of the best works, there are several duplicates, and of the school books, paper, quills, and stationary, quantities. The sales will proceed in the exact order of the catalogue, and will commence on Tuesday, the 16th December, and be continued from day to day, through the week. Hours of sale, from 9 o'clock, A.M. to 2 P.M.; from 3 o'clock, P.M., to 5 1/2; and from 7 to 10 in the evening -- Persons attending the sale, may be assured of the utmost despatch, that the whole stock may be completed during the week. : Terms. All purchases less than $50, cash; $50 and less than $100, three months; $100 and upwards, six months credit, approved notes, dated on the day of sale. No books delivered till after the bills are settled. : Punctual attendance to the above hours, respectfully requested. Charles P. Curtis, Henry Willis, assignees of Lilly, Wait, & Co., Boston by Charles Pelham Curtis( Book )

Most widely held works by Lilly, Wait, and Company

Parley's magazine( )

in English and held by 90 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The daughter's own book; or, Practical hints from a father to his daughter by William B Sprague( Book )

4 editions published between 1833 and 1834 in English and held by 56 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sets out the expectations for a young woman in the 1830s

Bowen's picture of Boston, or the citizens and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. To which is affixed the Annals of Boston by Abel Bowen( Book )

2 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 36 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The despotism of freedom; or, Tyranny and cruelty of American republican slave-masters by David Lee Child( Book )

2 editions published between 1833 and 1834 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stories about Boston and its neighborhood by Robin Carver( Book )

1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A lecture on the alleged uncertainty of the law : delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, March 5, 1830 by John Pickering( Book )

1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Book of the atmosphere( Book )

2 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Child's gem : a pretty gift( Book )

3 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Keeper's travels in search of his master by Edward Augustus Kendall( Book )

2 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Keeper, a wandering dog, separated from his master along a busy street, has seen so much of the world and mankind, in his search after his master

Stories of voyages : being authentic narratives of the most celebrated voyages from Columbus to Parry, with accounts of remarkable shipwrecks and naval adventures ; designed to interest the young in the study of geography( Book )

1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Peter Parley's method of telling about geography to children : with nine maps and seventy-five engravings, principally for the use of schools by Samuel G Goodrich( Book )

2 editions published between 1833 and 1837 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Peter Parley's book of Bible stories for children and youth : with engravings by Samuel G Goodrich( Book )

1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is collection of gospel stories that are entertaining renderings of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted especially for young children

Colman's literary gazette : Notice of new books published in the United States( )

in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tales of Peter Parley about Europe : with engravings by Samuel G Goodrich( Book )

1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Secondary lessons, or The improved reader; intended as a sequel to the Franklin primer by Samuel Willard( Book )

2 editions published between 1831 and 1833 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cock Robin. : the death and burial of Cock Robin. : With colored engravings. : Price 12 1/2 cents. : [Two lines of verse]( Book )

in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The book of pictures( Book )

1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Pretty alphabet( Book )

in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Alternative Names

controlled identity Lilly & Wait

controlled identity Lilly, Wait, Colman & Holden

Lilly, Wait & Co.

Languages

English (38)