J. Wilcox

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  • Grubstreet: 441
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

WILCOX (J.), bookseller in London, 1721–62 (?). He sold the sixth edition of N. Cox's Gentleman's Recreation in 1721. Benjamin Franklin, while working in Palmer's office, lodged next door to Wilcox's shop, and was allowed, for a fee, to use the stock as a lending library. [Franklin, Autobiography, ed. J. Bigelow, 1909, p. 91.] This bookseller may perhaps be identical with the John Wilcox, Gent., who in 1762 took part in a certain insurrectionary movement in the Company of Stationers. [Timperley, p. 709.].