| Name: |
KEARSLEY, George I |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
Golden Lion, Ludgate St. Golden Fleece, Ludgate St. 46 Fleet St (1782) |
| Book Trades: |
Bookseller, Stationer |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1758 - 1790 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1758 (before) - 1790 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Advt: `Public Advertiser' 23/3/1773. Bankrupt 1764 & 84 (WORJ2872 & PUGH 6/5/1784). LivSC by 1781. Part Thomas Bowles & William Bird 1782. SFIP 469337 & 467290 (1782/3). Succeeded by Catherine & George Kearsley II 1791-6. Printed 'Copper Plate Magazine' (1774-78), 'Sentimental Magazine' (ran until 8/1777), 'Bath and Bristol Magazine' (from 4/1776), 'Virtuosi Museum' (1779), |
| Sources: |
- Advertisements, mostly from General Advertiser and Public Advertiser
- 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)
- Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (Exeter Working Paper No. 8)
- Alexander, David, ' "Alone worth treble the price": Illustrations in Eighteenth century English Magazines', in A Millennium of the Book: Production, Design and Illustration in Manuscript and Print before 1800, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1994), pp.107-133.
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