Leighton, Walter J. (d.1917); London booksellers; founded 1789, ceased trading 1937; Walter J. Leighton traded as J. & J. Leighton, 40 Brewer St, Golden Square, London; the Bodleian has catalogues, apparently going up to the mid-1930s, along with two bound volumes, the firm's file copy of its catalogues (purchased by the Library in 1980); see Pearson, Provenance Research, 161; Block, Short History, 34. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1917. Period: unknown century to 20th century.

5 entries:

• B-056(1) Barianus, Nicolaus — Causa Vitaliana de praecedentia heremitarum et minorum decisa. — Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 6 Apr. 1500. 4°.
• L-144(2)? Losa, Alphonsus De, commissary — Indulgentia 1497. For the benefit of the confraternity of S. Jacobus de Compostella. — [Antwerp: Thierry Martens, c.1497]. Broadside.
• L-146A(1)? Losa, Alphonsus De, commissary — Indulgentia 1497. For the benefit of the confraternity of S. Jacobus de Compostella. — [Antwerp: Thierry Martens, c.1497]. Broadside.
• O-004(1) Odaxius, Tiphis — La Macaronea. — [Venice: Baptista de Tortis?, not before 1481]. 8°.
• P-147(1) Persius Flaccus, Aulus — Satyrae (comm. Johannes Britannicus and Bartholomaeus Fontius, ed. Bartholomaeus Merula). — Venice: Antonius de Gusago, for Octavianus Scotus, 28 Sept. 1497. Folio.

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