Richard Basset (fl. 1697–1706)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 5804

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Dates

  • Apprenticeship: 1690
  • Freedom: 1697

Names

  • Richard Basset
  • Richard Bassett

Richard Basset, bookseller and publisher, 1697–1706, at the Mitre over against Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, 1698; at the George over against Inner Temple Lane, Fleet Street. Son of Thomas Basset.

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

BASSET (RICHARD), bookseller in London, (1) Mitre, Fleet Street, (a) near the Inner Temple Gate, (b) over against Chancery Lane, (c) within Temple Bar; (2) George, Fleet Street, over against Inner Temple Lane. 1697–1706. Dealer in all kinds of literature and publisher of plays and poems. In most of his publications his name appears jointly with that of Abel Roper, from which it may be inferred that there was some kind of partnership between them. His first and last entries in the Term Catalogues were in Michaelmas 1697 and Trinity 1706. [T.C. III. 40, 512.]