| Name: |
LACKINGTON, James |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
Featherstone St, St Luke's. 46/47 Chiswell St. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Sq |
| Book Trades: |
Bookseller, Librarian/owner of circulating library, Publisher, Publisher (music), Author |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1774 - 1815 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1746 (date of birth) - 1815 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Born Wellington, Somerset 31/8/1746 son of a journeyman shoemaker. 1761 apprenticed to George Bowden, shoemaker of Taunton. Freed autumn 1767. Married Nancy Smith 1770. Began trading as a second hand bookseller on Midsummer day 1775. Moved to Chiswell st six weeks later. Wife died of fever 9/1775. Married Dorcas Turton 30/1/1776.First catalogue 1779 in partnership with John Denis of Cannon st. Trading as Lackington, Allen & Co (1796-1812). SFIP 380485 (1777), 457060 (1782) & 493122 (1784). Succeeded by & related to George Lackington |
| Sources: |
- Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Brown, Philip A.H., London Publishers and Printers c. 1800-1870 (London, 1982)
- Kassler, Jamie Croy, The Science of Music in Britain, 1714-1839: a catalogue of writings, lectures and inventions (New York & London, 1979), 2 vols.
- 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) - May refer to the appropriate volume by Aldis or Plomer
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