Details for: WHITE, Benjamin I

Name: WHITE, Benjamin I County: London Town: London Address(es): Boyle's Head, 64 Fleet St. Horace's Head, 63 Fleet St Book Trades: Bookseller, Publisher, Music seller Non-Book Trade: Not known Trading Dates: 1749 ? - 1794 (date of death) Biographical Dates: 1725 (date of birth) - 1794 (date of death) Notes: Part John Whiston 1749-66 [MAXTED] or 1754-66 [KASSLER]. For some period ran Whiston's business while he was in retirement. Trading as B White & Son (1785-91); B White & Sons (1792) Sources: 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) Brown, Philip A.H., London Publishers and Printers c. 1800-1870 (London, 1982) 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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