Trader Details

Details for: FRY, Edmund

Name: FRY, Edmund
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): 8 Queen St, Moorfields. 15 Worship St. 6 Type St, Chiswell St. 23 Kingsland Cres. 2 Baches Row &c
Book Trades: Printer, Typefounder, Printers' supplier
Non-Book Trade: Pharmacy/medicine (doctor)
Trading Dates: 1782 - 1835
Biographical Dates: 1782 (before) - 1835 (date of death)
Notes: Press seller. Born Bristol; son of Joseph Fry. Deaf. LivSC by 1792. Part Isaac Steele, George Knowles, Wendover Fry. Trading as Frys, Couchman & Collier; Frys & Couchman; Edmund Fry & Co; Fry & Steele; Edmund Fry & Son
Sources:
  • Todd, William B., A Directory of printers and Others in Allied Trades: London and Vicinity, 1800-1840 (London, 1972)
  • 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)


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