Details for: SPILSBURY, John
| Name: |
SPILSBURY, John |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
Russell Ct, Covent Gdn |
| Book Trades: |
Engraver/etcher (maps) |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1739 - 1769 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1739 (before) - 1795 ? |
| Notes: |
Inventor (invented jigsaws). Bro Jonathan & Thomas Spilsbury. Often confused with Jonathan. Employed John Hand before 1777 |
| Sources: |
- 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)
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