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1700 New Bk. Cyphers (title page) Sold by J. Nutting Engraver & Print-Seller.

1790 J. Byng Diary 6 July in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 236 Think then, how the tourist must wander over a wild country, in despair: venting himself upon the print sellers who have encourag'd his travel!

a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 9 Called at Jaillant the Printseller on the Quay du Ferrail, who had a vast collection of prints.

1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 688 He connived at a print-seller's carrying away a great many valuable prints.

1857 J. Ruskin Elements Drawing ii. 139 Any printsellers who have folios..of old drawings, or facsimiles of them.

1895 J. M. Falkner Lost Stradivarius iii. 25 John had secured convenient rooms for us above the shop of a well-known printseller in High Street.

1955 E. de T. Bechtel Jacques Callot 6 The Callot etchings and drawings which he had just seen in the portfolios of a printseller on the Quai Voltaire.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 June 22/4 A freelance caricaturist caught between the fashionable West End print sellers catering to the ‘nobs’ and the populist, polemical shops of the old City.