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Album of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult Death

Description: Extremely Rare Album of Remembrance Blank Antiquarian Gift Book published by short lived New York publishers Leavitt & Allen circa 1850 with five steel engravings. in a beautiful cap quarto binding with Rich colored cloths elegantly illuminated morocco gilt side morocco full gilt and morocco antique The Publishers solicit attention to the following Gift Books and Annuals have been prepared with great care They are printed on superfine paper beautifully treated and in new and very beautiful styles of binding There are in all upwards of hundred varieties being the largest and most perfect assortment of Books for Gifts issued Each book in separate printed wrapper No date in any of the books. George Ayres Leavitt ArticleTalkReadEditView history ToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Book auction at sales room of Leavitt & Delissier, run by partner George Ayres Leavitt, Broadway, New York City, 1856George Ayres Leavitt (May 13, 1822 – December 18, 1888) was the son of a Massachusetts bookbinder who founded several of New York's earliest publishing firms. George Leavitt subsequently founded his own publishing company, Leavitt & Allen, but it failed during a financial panic that swept the nation during the American Civil War. Leavitt later tried to reestablish himself as both publisher and fine arts auctioneers, founding one of the first upscale auction houses, and eventually retiring from the book industry entirely. George A. Leavitt was born in 1822, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the son of Jonathan Leavitt,[1] who lived in Andover, Massachusetts, where the former bookbinder's apprentice operated an early publishing firm devoted to turning out religious works connected with the Andover Theological Seminary. Shortly after his son George's birth, Jonathan Leavitt left Andover for New York City, where he launched into business with his brother-in-law Daniel Appleton, a former Boston dry goods merchant. Their partnership lasted a decade, after which Leavitt founded the publishing house of Leavitt & Trow, which published the complete works of Jonathan Edwards, and became one of the country's largest publishing houses through its dominance of religious publishing.[2] Helping Jonathan Leavitt build his business was his right-hand man, George Palmer Putnam, who eventually left for other better-paying opportunities. By 1842 George A. Leavitt, having graduated from Andover's Phillips Academy and worked for a time for the booksellers Robinson & Franklin, joined his father's publishing house. On his father Jonathan's death a decade later in 1851, Leavitt took over the firm and operated for year as a sole proprietorship, when he took on as partner his Andover classmate John K. Allen. Leavit & AllenThe firm renamed itself Leavitt & Allen and eventually settled at 379 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The older name was 27 Dey Street in 1851. In 1856, Leavitt took the suggestion of his father-in-law James E. Cooley, one of New York's largest auctioneers, to open a trade book sale auction house.[3] Until that year New York publishers had dealt with wholesalers in a system devoid of rules. Wearying of the inconsistencies, the publishers, including Leavitt, founded the New York Publishers' Association in an attempt to bring order to the topsy-turvy marketplace for books.[4] On March 20, 1856, the Second Regular Trade Sale was held on the premises of the newly formed Leavitt, Delisser & Co., an auction house formed especially to handle the trade book sale. By this time Leavitt's publishing interests had blossomed. Aside from the new auction house on the first floor, Leavitt's building in Broadway on what was then Dey Street. [5] housed Leavitt's partner John F. Trow's printing operation on the building's upper floors. The publishing firm of Leavitt & Allen operated a store on the first floor, as well as occupying the building's basement. Leavitt had inherited a backstock of educational books from his father's firm, and he and his partner Allen continued to add to their stable of writers, which included Prof. John J. Owen, S.N. Sweet, Rev. Albert Barnes, Rev. John Chase Lord, Jonathan Edwards and others. Leavitt & Allen was particularly successful at sales of special occasion books and 'annuals', a category generating sales of up to 50,000 copies a year. Leavitt & Allen also published English poets, young people's books, writing and photograph albums. By 1860 Leavitt's fortunes were rising, and the firms of Leavitt & Allen, publishers and booksellers, as well as Geo. A. Leavitt & Co. relocated to larger quarters at 24 Walker Street. Leavitt's auction partner Delisser had retired, and was replaced by Leavitt's friend James M. Alden. A year later the Leavitt interests relocated to 21 and 23 Mercer Street in Lower Manhattan, which were to remain the firm's premises for many years, and where it conducted its trade book sales.

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Album of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult DeathAlbum of Remembrance Leavitt & Allen 1850 Rare Blank Gift Book Occult Death

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