Lilly, Wait, and Company

Overview

Works:	35 works in 47 publications in 1 language and 271 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Guidebooks Handbooks, manuals, etc History Chronology Life skills guides Controversial literature Biography Catalogs
Roles:	Bookseller, Publisher, Printer
Classifications:	AC4, 843.5

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Publications about Lilly, Wait, and Company

Publications by Lilly, Wait, and Company

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

The daughter's own book; or, Practical hints from a father to his daughter by William B Sprague ( Book )
5 editions published between 1833 and 1834 in English and held by 65 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bowen's picture of Boston, or, The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs by Abel Bowen ( Book )
2 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The complete farmer and rural economist containing a compendious epitome of the most important branches of agricultural and rural economy by Thomas Green Fessenden ( Book )
2 editions published in 1834 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The despotism of freedom or the tyranny and cruelty of American Republican slave-masters, shown to be the worst in the world ; in a speech, delivered at the first anniversary of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, 1833. by David Lee Child ( Book )
2 editions published between 1833 and 1834 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Book of the atmosphere ( Book )
2 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 18 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stories about Boston and its neighborhood by Robin Carver ( Book )
1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Child's gem : a pretty gift ( Book )
2 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Keeper's travels in search of his master by Edward Augustus Kendall ( Book )
1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 7 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

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

Parley's magazine[.] ( )
in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Parley's magazine ( )
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 3 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

Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ( Book )
1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Here the author tells the story of two children of French parentage who grow up entirely according to nature's laws on a paradise island, free from the corrupting influence of the world. They reach adolescence and fall in love. -- From back cover

The Child's gem ( Book )
1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Pretty alphabet ( Book )
in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The book of pictures ( Book )
1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Outre-mer; : a pilgrimage beyond the sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( Book )
1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

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Audience level: 0.43 (from 0.00 for Catalogue ... to 1.00 for Parley's m ...)

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controlled identity Lilly & Wait

controlled identity Lilly, Wait, Colman, & Holden

Lilly, Wait & Co.

Languages

English (33)