Ebenezer Tracy

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

TRACY (EBENEZER), bookseller in London, Three Bibles on London Bridge, 1695–1719. Successor to Thomas Passinger the Second. Began publishing in 1695. [T.C. II. 547.] Published many ballads, chapbooks and nautical manuals. He was also the proprietor of a patent medicine called the "Balsam of Chili", the virtues of which he set out in a pamphlet published in 1696. [T.C. II. 579.] In 1714/15 he paid a fine of £12 for exemption from serving the office of churchwarden of St. Magnus. He was succeeded by his sons H. and J. Tracy. There was another house called the Three Bibles, "the corner house of the square, about the middle of London Bridge", occupied by John Stuart, stationer, who dealt in playing cards and wall-papers, and who also sold a "Balsam of Chili", in rivalry with the Tracys.