Trader Details

Details for: WILDE, Elizabeth Mrs

Name: WILDE, Elizabeth Mrs
County: Herefordshire
Town: Hereford
Address(es): None
Book Trades: Bookseller, Stationer, Bookbinder
Non-Book Trade: Pharmacy/medicine (pharmacist/druggist/chemist/patent medicine seller)
Trading Dates: 1734 ? - 1755 (date of death)
Biographical Dates: 1734 (before) - 1755 (date of death)
Notes: Daughter & successor to James Wilde I. Admitted Haberdashers Co 12/2/1789 `having served her late father 7 years'. Succeeded by nephew James Wilde III. Possibly also at Kidderminster (1746 (date from imprint), pharamcist in 1747).
Sources:
  • Minute book of the Haberdashers' Company (in Hereford City Library local collections)
  • Hereford Cathedral Library archive
  • Worcester Journal
  • Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.1: to 1779 (Birmingham, 1975)
  • Todd, William B. and Wallis, Peter J., 'Provincial booksellers c1744: the Harleian Miscellany subscription list', The Library, 5th series, 29 (1974), pp.422-40


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