Cottle, Joseph (1770–1853), bookseller and author, was born on 9 March 1770 in Barton Alley, Bristol, second of the seven children of Robert (d. 1800) and Sarah Cottle (1739–1813) from Trowbridge; Amos Simon Cottle was his elder brother. Robert, descended from a Cornish gentry family, was a tailor and draper in ...
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Cottle, Joseph (1770–1853), bookseller and author
Ralph A. Manogue
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Harris, Benjamin (c. 1647–1720), publisher and bookseller
Mark Knights
Harris, Benjamin (c. 1647–1720), publisher and bookseller, was born in London, the son of William Harris, citizen and barber–surgeon. Apprenticed to a bookseller on 6 April 1663, he gained his freedom from the Stationers' Company on 1 August 1670. His first known publication (with ...
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Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809), bookseller
Carol Hall
Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809), bookseller, was born on 15 November 1738 at Everton, near Liverpool, the second of two sons of John Johnson, a Baptist landowner and businessman who came to Everton from Cheshire in 1733. Johnson left for London in 1752, where two years later on 12 February 1754 he was apprenticed to ...
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Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) by William Sharp (after Moses Haughton) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Smith, Francis (d. 1691), bookseller and General Baptist minister
Beth Lynch
Smith, Francis (d. 1691), bookseller and General Baptist minister, was the son of Francis Smith, a Yorkshire farrier from Bradford. No further information has as yet been discovered about his family background or his birth details. On 3 May 1647 he was apprenticed to ...
