John Jackson (fl. 1724?1761)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1575

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

John Jackson, bookseller and publisher, 1721–1762; at the Prince's Arms in Pall Mall, 1721–1724; in Pall Mall, 1726–1735; next St. James's, 1728; at St. James's, 1730; at St. James's Gate, 1732–1745?; in St. James's Street, 1737–1762.

This Day is Publish'd, the 2d Edition, of
||*† MISCELLANIES. By John Aubrey, Esq;
Fellow of the Royal Society. Containing, I. The most authentick Relations corcerning Apparitions, particularly an Account of a surprizing Appearance, attested by Mr. John Evelyn, F.R.S. Also a Discovery of 2 Murders by an Apparition, and theTryal of the Murderers at York Assizes 1690, before Judge Powel. II. Of Voices, Impulses, Knockings, Blows, Invisible, and other supernatural Disturbances. III. Of the Fatality of Families and Places, and of Omens; with an Account of many which have prov'd successively Fatal to the Royal Family of the Stuarts. IV. Of Dreams and their Effects, wth several very remarkable ones, attested by the Lady Seymour, the Countess of York, the Lady Hoskins, the Lady Davis, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Sir Christopher Wren, and Dr. Halley. V. Of Prophecies, particularly one foretelling the great Plague 1660. VI. A curious Letter concerning Corpse Candles in Wales. Bỷ Mr. Davis. VIl. Of Magick, Converse with Spirits, Transportation in the Air, Visions in a Barel or Glass; with the Draught of one in the Custody of Sir Edward Harley. VIII. Of Second-sighted Persons; an accurate Account of them, in two Letters from Scotland. IX. Of Oracles, Prodigies, and Divination. X. The Life of Mr. Aubrey. Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against Catherine-street in the Strand, A. Bettesworth at the Red Lyon, and J. Battley at the Dove, both in Pater-noster-row, and J. Pemberton at the Buck in Fleet-Street; and sold by J. Graves in St. James's-street, J. Jackson at the Prince's Arms in Pall-mall, T. Griffith at Charing-Cross, and W. Chetwood at the Post-House in Covent-Garden. Price 4s.—The Evening Post, 14 February 1721

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

JACKSON (J.), bookseller and publisher in London, (1) Pall Mall, near St. James's House; (2) bottom of St. James's Street; (3) St. James's Street, near the Palace. 1728–61. Publisher of pamphlets, etc., which he advertised in Mist's Weekly. In 1728 his name is found in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Liberty, or the meeting of Parliament. [W. M. C., January; Winship.]; in 1729 he published a dramatic opera Love and Revenge. [W. M. C., November.] At one time he was in partnership with J. Jolliffe. In 1761 he sold patent medicines.