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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sells prints or engravings.

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Examples

  • As he reached the shop window of a print-seller, this man on the brink of death met a young woman alighting from a showy carriage.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • George Cruikshank was never his pupil; nor did he ever attain the freedom and mastery of outline which the crazy old reprobate, who made the fortune of Mr. Humphries, the St. James's St.eet print-seller, undeniably possessed; but his handling was grounded upon Gillray's style; and from early and attentive study of his works he must have acquired that boldness of treatment, that rotundity of light and shade, and that general

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

  • Carwirtham, as the engraver or print-seller, 1741.

    On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

  • At sixteen he put me to serve in the shop of a cousin, a print-seller.

    Grey Roses Henry Harland 1883

  • He attracted the attention of a print-seller, who was so interested in him that he allowed him to draw from studies and casts from the antique which he had.

    A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

  • Madame Luigi Porta, born Ginevra di Piombo, obtained from a print-seller a position as colorist.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • Then he became tired of the wandering life, and in 1806 settled down at Carrick-on-Suir as a print-seller and carver and gilder.

    Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Bianconi was to be Faroni's apprentice for eighteen months; and in the event of his not liking the occupation, he was to be placed under the care of Colnaghi, a friend of his father's, who was then making considerable progress as a print-seller in London; and who afterwards succeeded in achieving a considerable fortune and reputation.

    Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

  • There you are greeted by the jeweller of the Palais Royal and the marchande de mode of the Rue de la Paix; the print-seller from Mannheim and the china-dealer from Dresden; and other small speculators in the various fancy articles which abound in Vienna,

    Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • As he reached the shop window of a print-seller, this man on the brink of death met a young woman alighting from a showy carriage.

    The Magic Skin Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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