Details for: BASIRE, Isaac
| Name: |
BASIRE, Isaac |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
St James, Clerkenwell (1728-59) |
| Book Trades: |
Engraver/etcher, Printer (copperplate) |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1728 ? - 1768 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1704 (date of birth) - 1768 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Son of James Basire I. Apprenticed to Lewis Cuney silver engraver 1717; t/o Samuel David Jallason 1721. Master of Robert Roberts 1733; John Beckington 1737; James Green 1742 |
| Sources: |
- Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 1908-9)
- 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) - Worms, Laurence, British Map Engravers (work in progress)
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