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[between 1885 and 1910?]

1 bookseller's ticket : relief printing ; 3 x 1.5 cm; 1 bookseller's ticket : relief printing ; 3.1 x 1.8 cm; 1 bookseller's ticket : relief printing ; 3.1 x 2.3 cm

J.A. Carveth & Co Limited

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J.A. Carveth & Co., also known as J.A. Carveth & Co Limited, was a medical publisher and bookseller located in Toronto and operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to its advertisements, J.A. Carveth & Co. carried the largest and most complete stock of the latest American and English publications in Canada, and imported foreign publications. Among the titles published and sold by J.A. Carveth & Co. were 'Post-mortem Examinations Methods and Technique,' 'Equine Myology,' and 'Practice of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery.' The 1898 Toronto City Directory lists J.A. Carveth & Co.'s address as 413 Parliament Street, as does the Calendar of the University of Toronto for the year 1891-2, but the bookseller's tickets indicate that the firm also had premises at 351 Parliament Street and 434 Younge Street. Although it is not known when J.A. Carveth & Co. ceased operations, by 1910, J. Alva Carveth, proprietor of the firm, was managing director J. F. Hartz Co. A copy of ex libris '2' is also available in the Philippe Masson Ex Libris Collection at McGill University.
References:
1) Canadian Book, Stationery and Publishing Trades Association. (1910). Book publishers organize. Bookseller & Stationer, 26(1), 43. Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://archive.org/stream/stationeryoffice1910toro#page/n5/mode/2up
2) ISBNdb.com. (2002-2013). Books of this Publisher - J.A. Carveth Toronto. Retrieved March 22, 2013, from <http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/j_a_carveth.html>
3) Might Directory Co. (1898). The Toronto city directory for 1898. Toronto: Might Directory Co.
4) University of Toronto. (1891). The calendar of the University of Toronto for the year 1891-2. Toronto: Rowsell & Hutchinson. Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://books.google.ca/books?id=PCzPAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22j.+a.+carveth%22+AND+toronto+AND+calendar&source=gbs_navlinks_s
5) The Philippe Masson Ex Libris Collection at McGill University, from http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/bookplates/

RBSC Bookplates

2013

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