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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Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809), bookseller
Carol Hall
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Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809)
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Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) by William Sharp (after Moses Haughton) © National Portrait Gallery, London