Details for: IRELAND, Samuel
| Name: |
IRELAND, Samuel |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
Arundel St, Strand. 8 Norfolk St |
| Book Trades: |
Engraver/etcher, Publisher (prints) |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Textiles and clothing (weaver) |
| Trading Dates: |
1790 - 1800 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1790 (before) - 1800 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Began life as weaver in Spitalfields. Became PS and taught himself engraving. Father of William Henry Ireland, literary forger (1771-1835) |
| 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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