William Martin, bookseller and auctioneer, presiding over an auction of books and prints. Barely able to read, he still had little difficulty selling books in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.

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