At the Bookstore, 1887: Bestsellers for Sixty Cents
While researching John Bowerman Ferguson and the BC Stationery and Printing Company, I came across this ad, which illuminates (albeit fuzzily) what readers could find on the shelves of BC bookstores in 1887: For sixty cents per volume, readers could walk away with now-classic works by Charles Dickens, Johnathan Swift, Victor Hugo, and Sir Walter… Continue reading At the Bookstore, 1887: Bestsellers for Sixty Cents