Bispham Dickinson (fl. 1732–1754)
Identifiers
- Grubstreet: 2023
- VIAF: 103154739901152991763
Occupations
- Bookseller
- Printseller
- Publisher
Bispham Dickinson, bookseller, printseller, and publisher, 1732–1754; at Inigo Jones's Head, over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1732–1736; against the India House in Leadenhall Street, 1747; at the Corner of Bell Savage Inn on Ludgate Hill, 1748–1754. He took over the shop of Joseph Smith at Inigo Jones's Head ca. 1732. He specialised in satires. The business was continued after his death by Mary, his widow, to whom he left all his stock in trade "meaning all my Copper Plates Prints and drawings of what nature or kind soever All my Books in Sheets together with all rights and of Copies that I shall dye possessed of" (National Archives, Kew, PROB 11/814/314).
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)
DICKINSON (B.), ? bookseller and publisher in London, Inigo Jones's Head, over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1736. His name occurs in the imprint to a poem entitled The forsaken Fair, published in 1736. [B.M. 11602. i. 17 (4).]