Trader Details

Details for: ILIVE, Jacob

Name: ILIVE, Jacob
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Aldersgate St, o/a Aldersgate Coffee Hse (1730). London Hse, Aldersgate (1746)
Book Trades: Printer, Typefounder
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1729 - 1763
Biographical Dates: 1729 (before) - 1763 (date of death)
Notes: Also at Maidstone. Successor to parents Jane & Thomas Ilive/Iliff; bro Isaac & Abraham Ilive. Correspondence with Francis Blomefield, 1737. Sold typefoundry to John James 1740.
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)
  • Bell, Maureen, 'A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade, 1540-1730', MLS dissertation, Loughborough University of Technology (1983)
  • (Unknown)
  • Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, quarterly periodical, published by OUP.
  • Extra source information - 1990 vol.12 no.2 6th series


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