Trader Details

Details for: HALL, Benjamin

Name: HALL, Benjamin
County: Warwickshire
Town: Birmingham
Address(es): 71 High St. 93 High St (1841). 95 High Street (1841-1847). 71 High Street (1849-50). House: 24 Wellington Road (1849).
Book Trades: Stationer, Bookseller, Printer, Account-book manufacturer/maker, Bookbinder, Paper marbler, Papermaker (coloured), Papermaker (marbled), Publisher, Paper merchant (wholesale), Printer (letter), Papermaker, Paper merchant
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1839 - 1867
Biographical Dates: 1839 - 1879 (date of death)
Notes: Successor to Thomas Knott; succeeded by Hall & English (1867-1933). 'Publisher of Aris's Gazette every Monday' (1845). Imprint 1850.
Sources:
  • Morgan, Paul, Warwickshire 'Printers' Notices, 1799-1866 (Oxford, Publications of the Dugdale Society 28, 1970)
  • Birmingham Bibliographical Society. Information from directories regarding the West Midlands Book Trade, 1840-1850.
  • Pigot and Company's royal national and commercial directory …. Of Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. (1841)
    Pigot and Company's royal national and commercial directory … of Derbyshire ... Herefordshire, Salop. (1842)
  • The directory of Birmingham. Wrightson & Webb, (1843)
  • Post Office directory of Birmingham, Warwickshire and part of Staffordshire. (1845)
    Post Office directory of London and Birmingham (1845)
  • I. Slater's National commercial directory of Ireland. (BM 1846)
  • Slater's national commercial directory of Ireland. (1847)
  • The directory of Birmingham. Wrightson & Webb. (1846)
  • The directory of Birmingham. Wrightson & Webb. (1847)
  • History and general directory of the Borough of Birmingham. White. (1849)
  • Slater's royal national and commercial directory, (1850)


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