Trader Details

Details for: PHORSON, William

Name: PHORSON, William
County: Northumberland
Town: Berwick upon Tweed
Address(es): None
Book Trades: Printer, Bookseller, Stationer, Librarian/owner of circulating library
Non-Book Trade: Pharmacy/medicine (pharmacist/druggist/chemist/patent medicine seller)
Trading Dates: 1771 - 1797
Biographical Dates: 1771 (before) - 1797
Notes: None
Sources:
  • Hunt, C.J., The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1975)
  • Wallis, P.J., The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860: a supplement to C J Hunt's Biographical Dictionary (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981)
  • Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
  • Day, John C. The Circulating Library in the North West , History of the Book Trade in the North (Newcastle, 1994)


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