Trader Details

Details for: DODSLEY, James

Name: DODSLEY, James
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): North Side, Pall Mall (1777). Pall Mall (1779-82)
Book Trades: Bookseller, Publisher, Bookseller (wholesale)
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1750 - 1797
Biographical Dates: 1724 (date of birth) - 1797 (date of death)
Notes: Part & successor to elder bro Robert Dodsley; trading as R & J Dodsley. Assoc John Freeborn. FSC & LivSC 1754, Court 1785. SFIP 383489 (1777), 421660 (1779), 439506 (1781), 456235 (1781/2)
Sources:
  • Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (Exeter Working Paper No. 8)
  • Kassler, Jamie Croy, The Science of Music in Britain, 1714-1839: a catalogue of writings, lectures and inventions (New York & London, 1979), 2 vols.
  • Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Folkestone, 1977)
    Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1735-1775: a checklist of members in trade directories and in Musgrave's 'Obituary' (Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History No.3, 1984)
  • 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)
  • Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, quarterly periodical, published by OUP.
  • Extra source information - 1993 vol.xv no.4 6th series


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