Edmund Richardson (fl. 1687–1708)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 27397

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Book Binder

Dates

  • Freedom: 1687

Edmund Richardson, bookbinder and bookseller; in Scalding Alley; at the Naked Boy, Blowbladder Street, over against St. Martin-le-Grand, 1698; at the Naked Boy, Newgate Street, 1699–1703; near the Poultry Church. 1680(?)–1703. Son of William Richardson, bookbinder.

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

RICHARDSON (EDMOND), bookbinder and bookseller in London; (1) Scalding Alley; (2) Naked Boy, Blowbladder Street, over against St. Martin-le-Grand, 1698; (3) Naked Boy, Newgate Street, 1699–1703; (4?) near the Poultry Church. 1680(?)–1703. Dunton says [pp. 257–8] that Richardson "was my kind neighbour in Scalding Alley for many years, bound most of my Calves Leather Books whilst I lived in the Poultry. ... Having thrived by his binding trade, he is now a flourishing bookseller in Newgate Street". In 1691 he published Islington-Wells, but his first entry in the Term Catalogues was a theological book, in Easter Term 1698. [T.C. III. 63.]