Edmund Powell (fl. 1708–1711)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 11434

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

POWELL (EDMUND), printer and bookseller in London, Blackfriars, 1708–11. In 1708 his name appears in the Term Catalogue as the printer of The Improvement of Human Reason (Hai Ibn Yokdan, translated by Simon Ockley) [T.C. in. 595], and he published other works by the translator. Lists of his publications appeared from time to time in The Female Tatler in 1709. In 1711 he is mentioned in a list of persons receiving subscriptions for a work entitled The Grand Curiosity. [Daily Courant, September 29th, 1711.]