Trader Details

Details for: HARDING, Edward

Name: HARDING, Edward
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): 132 Fleet St. 102 Pall Mall. 98 Pall Mall. 3 Pall Mall
Book Trades: Bookseller, Print seller, Engraver/etcher, Librarian/owner of circulating library
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1786 (before) - 1840
Biographical Dates: 1755 (date of birth) - 1840 (date of death)
Notes: Apprenticed to as hairdresser but joined elder bro Sylvester as book & print seller. After part diss cont alone some yrs until appointed Librarian to Queen Charlotte (1803) then Duke of Cumberland (1818-40)
Sources:
  • 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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