Trader Details

Details for: SAYER, Robert

Name: SAYER, Robert
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): 53 Golden Buck, Fleet St
Book Trades: Print seller, Map/chart seller, Publisher (maps)
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1748 (date of freedom) - 1794
Biographical Dates: 1725 (date of birth) - 1794 (date of death)
Notes: LivSC 1753. Successor to P Overton. Part Philip Overton 1745-51; Richard Bennett, trading as Sayer & Bennett 1774-82. With Carington Bowles & John Bowles. SFIP 430120 (1780)
Sources:
  • Sussex information from imprints from booksellers' catalogues, various
  • Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (Exeter Working Paper No. 8)
  • 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)
  • Kingsley, D., Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900


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