A place where books are sold.
1796. [A man] wants employment in a Bookstore, Compting House, or Public Office.—The Aurora (Phila.), Dec. 3.
1799 —The bookstores of this city.—Id., Jan. 19.
1805. Samuel Butler inserts an advt. of his “Baltimore Bookstore” in the Balt. Ev. Post, April 30, p. 1/4.
1805. All the preceding Books may be had at the above Bookstores.—Advt., Mass. Spy, May 22.
1810. Edinburgh Review, xvii. 121. (N.E.D.)
1814. While residing in Paris [I examined] all the principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America.—Tho. Jefferson to S. H. Smith, Sept. 21.
1818. Bookstores afford, particularly in small villages and country places, the best data, from which can be calculated the state of public literary improvement.—W. Darby, ‘Tour to Detroit,’ p. 22 (1819).
