| Name: |
TESSEYMAN, William |
| County: |
Yorkshire |
| Town: |
York |
| Address(es): |
At the sign of the Crown (1760-1801). Bookbinder's Alley. Minster Yd (1763-1811) |
| Book Trades: |
Bookseller, Publisher |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Pharmacy/medicine (pharmacist/druggist/chemist/patent medicine seller) |
| Trading Dates: |
1750 ? - 1811 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1750 (before) - 1811 |
| Notes: |
Possibly the same as W Tessamen. Possibly related to J Teysyman (1760). Sold business to J Wolstonholme. Died in Beverley 1811. For details of will see PRO: PROB/11/1528/557 |
| Sources: |
- Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932)
- Sessions, Unspecified
- Davies, Robert, A Memoir of the York Press (London, 1868; reprd. York, 1988)
- Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1812)
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