Elizabeth Brooksby (fl. 17031715?)

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Occupations

  • Bookseller

Elizabeth Brooksby, bookseller at the Golden Ball, Pye Corner, 1703–1715? Successor to her husband, bookseller Philip Brooksby.

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

BROOKSBY (ELIZABETH), bookseller in London, Golden Ball, Pye Corner, 1703. Hazlitt [II. 196] records a copy of John Philips's English Fortune Tellers with the imprint, "London. Printed for E. Brooksby ... 1703." She was probably the widow of P. Brooksby.