Trader Details

Details for: DICAS, Thomas

Name: DICAS, Thomas
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Bell in St Paul's Churchyard. Hen & Chicken in St Paul's Churchyard
Book Trades: Bookseller
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1660 - 1669
Biographical Dates: 1660 - 1669 (date of death)
Notes: Brief publishing partnership with Sir Thomas Davies in 1656: four books entered jointly in the Stationers' Register during that year. 'Partner in some books with Mr Martyn and Mr Alestry'. Died of a consumption 6.2.1669
Sources:
  • Plomer, Henry R., A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907)
  • Harding, Vanessa, 'Mortality and the Mental Map of London: Richard Smith's Obituary', in Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1998), pp49-71.


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