William Thackeray

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 21150

Occupations

  • Bookseller

William Thackeray, bookseller, 1664–92; at the Black Spread Eagle and Sun, in the Old Bailey; at the Sugar Loaf, in Duck Lane; at the Angel in Duck Lane.

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

THACKERAY (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (3) Angel in Duck Lane, 1664–92. See Dictionary, 1641–67. Still publishing in 1692. [T.C. II. 415.] He moved to this (his third) address some time between 1669 [T.C. I. 15] and 1675 [T.C. I. 218]; in the intervening years he gives his address in the Term Catalogues simply as "in Duck Lane". The mass of his publications consisted of ballads and other chapbooks; they were published by a syndicate in which he was a partner, and were not advertised in the Term Catalogues. T. Passenger, F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright and J. Clarke were the other regular members; W. Whitwood appears more seldom. An advertisement of books sold by Thackeray appears at the end of Forde's Montelion, 1687. Succeeded by T. Thackeray (q.v.)?