The Mercantile register, or, Business man's guide : containing a list of the principal business establishments, including hotels and public institutions in Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Howell, 1818-1891, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce--Directories.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Industries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Directories.

Industries.

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Commerce--Directories.

Pittsburgh (Pa.).

Commerce.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Genre:

Directories.

Penn Provenance:

Trueman, William H., 1842-1927 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Spooner, David C., 1824-1883 (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Stockton, Samuel W. (Samuel Wesley), 1800-1872 (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

White, Samuel S. (Samuel Stockton), 1822-1879 (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

247, [3], 8, [2], 249-284 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia?] : [H. Evans?], [1846]

Notes:

Includes "The mercantile register, or, Business man's guide. Containing a list of the principal business establishments, including hotels, and public institutions in Pittsburg" with special title leaf on page [1] (second count). Preliminaries have separate pagination, but advertisements are paginated continuously with those for Philadelphia.

Each item printed in color, set within decorative border.

Advertisement for H. Evans, printer, Philadelphia, on leaf preceding special title leaf for "The mercantile register, or, Business man's guide. Containing a list of the principal business establishments, including hotels, and public institutions in Pittsburg".

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has manuscript note ("Grandfather Spooner & Gt. Grandfather Stockton's adv. on P. 94 (This is now the S.S. White Dental Mfg Co. Stolen by SS White from Saml Stockton who adopted & raised him)") in pencil on front pastedown. The note refers to an advertisement for S.W. Stockton and Company, that is, Samuel Wesley Stockton (1800-1872), whose daughter Ann Eliza Stockton (1825-1880) married David C. Spooner (1824-1883). Samuel Stockton White (1822-1879) was Samuel W. Stockton's nephew by his sister Mary (1797-1862) and her husband William Rose White (1796-1830). Possibilities for the writer of this note include the children of David C. Spooner's daughter Frances Lillian Stockton (later Allen; 1858-1946)--Lillian Stockton Allen (later Edmonds; subsequently Klein; 1884-1966), Ralph Wheelock Pomeroy Allen, Jr. (1886-1964), and Philip Meredith Allen (1893-1966)--and his son David Comyns Spooner (1865-1928)--David Comyns Spooner Jr. (1893-1979).

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from G.S. MacManus Co.

Kislak Center copy has on front pastedown bookplate ("Dr. William H. Trueman's LIBRARY. This book belongs to a library of reference, collected for the owner's convenience and will NOT be LENT on any consideration Bookcase 1 Shelf 7 No. 16 Accession No. 16 Date Prior to Dec. 1915") with the shelf-mark, accession number, and date of acquisition supplied in manuscript.

Kislak Center copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Kislak Center copy bound in full brown publisher's cloth; title ("MERCANTILE REGISTER") stamped in gold on left board; spine rebacked. Housed in clamshell case with brief title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints, 46-4589

OCLC:

9820320