| Name: |
WALLIS, John |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
Yorick's Head, 16 Ludgate St.& 54 Cornhill (bto hfrom 1775), 13 Warwick Sq. (1804) 42 Skinner St, Snow Hill &c (1812) |
| Book Trades: |
Publisher, Bookseller, Map/chart seller, Print seller, Music seller, Cartographer |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1775 (before) - 1818 (date of death) |
| Biographical Dates: |
1775 (before) - 1818 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
toys, games & bks for children. Invented jig-saw puzzles c1780. Father of & part Ed Wallis (1813>) and of John Wallis. Trading as Wallis & Stonehouse (1775-7). LivSC by 1792 |
| Sources: |
- 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) - Isaac, Peter, ed. Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain (Winchester, 1990)
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