Alexander Bosville (fl. 1696–1709)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Names

  • Alexander Bosville
  • Alexander Bosvile

Alexander Bosville, bookseller, 1696–1709; at the Dial in Fleet Street, 1697; at the Dial and Bible in Fleet Street, 1703.

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

BOSVILLE (ALEXANDER), bookseller in London, The Dial in Fleet Street, 1696/7 (2) The Dial and Bible in Fleet Street, 1703. 1696–1709. Publisher, largely of broadsides. Identical with Dunton's "Mr. Boswill" [p. 210]. His first appearance in the Term Catalogue is in Mich. 1696. [T.C. II. 599.] In the same year he published Motteux's comedy Love's a Jest. [T.C. II. 602.] He is last met with in the Term Catalogues in Hil. 1709. [T.C. in. 630.] His shop was taken by Edmund Curll in 1711.