Scribner's magazine . gone on through all these yearswith a prosperity equal to the rest. Probably few men with a greater fund ofknowledge or skill in choice have ever beenconnected with such a house than Mr. CharlesWelford, who, living in London, conductedthe business of buying there in a way whichled book collectors, of whom some of the fore-most have been valued clients of the housealmost from its beginning, to learn to lookto it for valuable prizes, and book-lovers todeal with it for fine editions and the stan-dards of foreign publication. By the timeof his death, in 1885, his traditions a
Scribner's magazine . gone on through all these yearswith a prosperity equal to the rest. Probably few men with a greater fund ofknowledge or skill in choice have ever beenconnected with such a house than Mr. CharlesWelford, who, living in London, conductedthe business of buying there in a way whichled book collectors, of whom some of the fore-most have been valued clients of the housealmost from its beginning, to learn to lookto it for valuable prizes, and book-lovers todeal with it for fine editions and the stan-dards of foreign publication. By the timeof his death, in 1885, his traditions andknowledge, in addition to the years of expe-rience of others in that department, had be-come a capital which this portion of the busi-ness is never likely to lose ; and Mr. L. , for many years manager of the Impor-tation Department in New York, has, sinceMr. Welfords death, carried on the work inLondon with the same success. N 1881, circumstances arising whichit seemed might hamper the firmin its entire indep
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