London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1827.
Price: $45.00
Unbound. Small engraved portriat. 8" x 5". Engraving by Wollnoth featuring a bust portrait of Nichols with a facsimile signature beneath. Edges worn and slightly discolored, very good. Nichols was a printer, editor, and writer. Nichols became proprietor of one the largest printing houses in London. Among other notable projects, in 1780 he began printing and editing the Gentleman's Magazine. Nichols was also an avid collector of literary manuscripts, which he then edited and printed. He is also notable as an antiquarian as he was passionately concerned with publishing and circulating historical material which might otherwise be lost.
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