Thomas Basset (fl. 1657–1696)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Map Publisher
  • Pharmacist
  • Chemist
  • Druggist
  • Patent Medicine Seller

Dates

  • Apprenticeship: 1650
  • Freedom: 1657

Names

  • Thomas Basset
  • Thomas Bassett

Thomas Bassett, bookseller, publisher, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, patent medicine seller, 1657–1696; in St. Dunstan's Churchyard; at the Georgein Fleet Street, 1676; near St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street; in Westminster Hall. Master of Jacob Tonson.

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

BASSET (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street; (2) George, near St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street; (3) Westminster Hall, 1659–93. A dealer in law books, chiefly remembered for the Catalogue of Law Books which he published in 1673. Jacob Tonson was one of his apprentices. A list of 13 books published by him in 1659 follows the preface to Hermaelogium, or An Essay at the rationality of the art of Speaking, 1659. 8°.