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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. v. JWE 23, igoa.
PETERSFIELD.
Thomas Wilmer or Willmer, printer, 1788-90. J. Wilmer, printer, 1807.
PORTSEA.
The Horseys, printers in Queen Street (1891),
claimed that their business was established in
1740. Joseph Horsey, printer, Queen Street,
1798-1800. S. & S. Horsey, 1826. J. Williams, printer, c. 1795-8. W. Woodward, printer, 1797- John Stead, bookseller, 1797, bankrupt (Gentleman's
Magazine).
Thos. Bevan, bookseller, 1799, bankrupt (id.). Peter Richardson, bookseller, 1801, bankrupt (id.).
PORTSMOUTH. Robert Hartford, stationer, 1675. Mr. Hartford,
bookseller, 1684-95. Mrs. Harford, bookseller,
about 17 10. Luke Cullimore, on the Point, time of Queen Anne.
(W. C. B.)
Eliz. Newton, widow, bookseller, 1708. Hugh Grove or Groves, bookseller and printer,
1718-35 James Wilkinson, bookseller, 1720. Widow
Wilkinson, bookseller, 1734-5. James Wilkin- son, 1755. George Everden, bookseller, at the Bible and
Crown, 1725.
W. Horton, printer, near Point Gate, 1751-5. R. Carr, corner of the Grand Parade, 1755-75.
R. Carr, printer, at Milton's Head, near the
Grand Magazine, 1777-85. Mr. Breadhower, 1778-82. Messrs. J. Wilkes (cf.
under Winchester), Breadhower & Peadle,
printers, 1779. J. Breadhower, 1790. Linden & Son, printers, removed from Southampton
(q.v.) to Portsmouth, 1780-81. Kent & Mowbray, printers of The Hampshire
Chronicle, 1781. Walter Mowbray, printer of
The Hampshire Chronicle, Barrack Street, 1782-3 ;
Battery Row, Platform, 1787 ; High Street, 1802.
Luke Kent, printer, bankrupt (Gentleman's
Magazine, 1784, May). Donaldson, printer, 1785-90. William Donaldson,
Portsmouth Gazette Office, High Street, 1793 ;
Grand Parade, 1799. John Charles Mottley, printer, Grand Parade,
1785-99 ; commenced The Hampshire Telegraph,
1799.
J. Harding, Portsmouth Common, 1790. James Grist, printer and bookseller, died March,
1815. (See Gosport.)
RlNGWOOD.
Cranston, 1790.
ROMSEY.
J. Whiting, 1768. (W. C. B.)
J. S. Hollis, printer, 1790-1800.
SOUTHAMPTON.
Mr. Powel, bookseller, 1684-95.
James Linden, bookseller and printer, High Street, 1768 - 78. He commenced The Hampshire Chronicle, or Southampton, Winchester, and Portsmouth Mercury, the first newspaper printed in the county, in August, 1772. (See my Early Newspaper Press of Hampshire,' Southampton, 1889.) Linden, Wise & Webber, 1775. D. Linden & Co., printers, 1778-80, then removed to Ports- mouth (q.v.). Linden & Cunningham, printers, 1784. James Linden the younger, bookseller, 179094.
T. Baker, agent for quack medicines, 1770. Thomas
Baker, bookseller and printer, 1774-1801. T.
Baker's Library, two doors above Butcher Row,
1787-1801. T. Baker & Son, printers, High Street,
1803.
Bro. J. Hodson (Mason), printer, Southampton and Salisbury, 1777.
Ford's Circulating Library, next the Market House. 1781.
Thomas Skelton, bookseller, opposite the Market- Place, 1784-1802 ; stamp distributor, 1794. " By appointment of different proprietors, patent and other medicines are sold by him. Books bound in elegant and plain bindings ; and all orders in printing, stationery, or bookselling businesses will be punctually attended to on reasonable terms." (Advertisement, 1787.)
Alexander Cunningham, printer, 1787-1800 ; oppo- site the Market House, High Street, 1790.
T. Macklin, bookseller, 1790.
William Band, engraver, 1790-94. STOCKBRIDGE.
Attneave, 1791.
WINCHESTER.
William Taylor, near the Chequer Gate, 1663.
William Clark, or Clarke, bookseller, 1681-1710. Mrs. Clark, bookseller, 1710.
William Colson, bookseller, 1705-41.
James Isaac Philpot gave 21s. to use the trade of printer and bookseller, 1725. He was a free- man of the city, and had the city money from the bequest of Sir Thomas White to assist young tradesmen, a loan without interest, 1732. Possibly he may have been a son of James Phil- pot, of Gosport (q.v.). Isaac Philpot, printer, High Street, 1732. (Probably the same as the preceding.)
Mr. Prior, 1743-6. (A William Prior was Mayor of Winchester in 1756.)
David Henry, publisher of The Winchester Journal (printed by him at Frier Street, Reading), upper end of the churchyard (doubtless the Square, near Minster Street, where the Corn Market was formerly held), 1745.
James Ayres, bookseller and printer, 1758. He printed ' Sermon on St. Peter's Repentance,' n.d. (about 1720?).
Elizabeth Harry Crocker, " bookbynder," 1758.
T. Burdon, c. 1750-68. His name appears on the Rev. Thomas Warton's ' Description of the City, College, and Cathedral of Winchester,' n.d. (the date of which is given in the k D.N.B.' as 1750). John Burdon, bookseller and printer, 1778-1802. "John Burdon, a very rpspectable bookseller at Winchester," died in 1802, leaving four sons, one. of whom, Charles Burdon, was also a bookseller Charles Burdon died 25 Aug., 1803, aged twenty" four (Timperley, ; Hist. of Printing'). Mr. Burdon is believed to have lived in College Street, being succeeded by Robbins & Wheeler.
William Greenville orGrenville, bookseller, 1767-75.
J. Meaisey, 1768.
John Wilkes, bookseller and printer, 1772-82. Also of Ave Maria Lane, London ; proprietor of 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis' (begun 1776). (See Timperley, ' Hist, of Printing ' ; also under Portsmouth.) Was he related to his namesake and contemporary, the great politician ?
John Sadler, printer and bookseller, High Street, 1783-4.
T. Blagden, printer, 1784-96.
Lockyer Davis, printer to the Royal Society, 1785
