Bookmen of Paternoster Row

Compiling the names and dates behind the book business along London's Paternoster Row

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https://archive.org/stream/americanbooktrad00newyuoft#page/155/mode/1up

1922: Bagster, Samuel, & Sons (Limited) 15 Paternoster Row, E C

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Huge directory, also has international directory. The link should go directly to the British publishers on page 155.

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(via Gallery: Aerofilms – A history of Britain from above | Metro UK)

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(via Map Of London 1868, By Edward Weller, F.R.G.S.)

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1858

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1873: Henry S. King & Co., 65 Cornhill and 12 Paternoster Row

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1812: Robert Baldwin (printed for) - next page has "C. Baldwin, Printer, New Bridge-street, London."

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1878: William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh

...Blackwood still going in 1922...

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1878: Mozley & Smith

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1865-1866: David Bryce

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Guthrie's Grammar

...printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, in Pater-Noster Row. 1788

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J. Davis

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Alfred Holness

1857: Tallant & Allen

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H.D. Symonds

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1724-1737: Henry Melsop

1741-1747:Charles Shuckbrugh

1749-1751: John Payne & Bouquett, booksellers

- Joseph Bouquet (White Hart), bookseller

1756-1757: (empty)

1758: William Montague & Henry Hurstcroft

1759-1769: John Coote (King’s Arms), bookseller

1770-1772: Benjamin Porter, linen draper

1772-1776: Widow Langford, glover, perfumer

1777-1818: James Harrison II, printer / Harrison & Co.

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1830: E. Palmer

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1717-1737: Jeremiah Batley (Dove, bookseller)

1732-1737: Francis Gregg

1738-1751: John Sawtell

1752: empty

1753-1763: Francis Garden

1768: Widow Garden

1769-1787: John Cooke (Shakespeare's Head)

1788: Charles Cooke

Was Mr Batley a dove seller as well as a bookseller, or is "Dove" what his business was called? Presumably "Widow Garden" means the widow of Francis Garden... also, John Cooke occupied #16 from 1762-1772.

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1709-1756: Jonathan Kendall, bookseller

1756-1761: William Fenner, bookseller

1762-1772: John Cooke (Shakespeare's Head), bookseller

1773: Hooper

1774-1777: William Bent, bookseller

1778-1819: Alexander Hogg, bookseller