John Taylor

TAYLOR (JOHN), bookseller in London, Globe, (1) at the West End of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1683–7; (2) Ship, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1687–1713. 1683–1713. One of the largest publishers of the period; the references under his name in the Term Catalogues, beginning in Mich. 1683 [T.C. n. 55], are very numerous. In 1687 he moved to Benjamin Tooke's premises, the Ship in St. Paul's Churchyard. About 1700 he took his son William into partnership, but in 1711 William set up for himself in Paternoster Row. John Taylor was a contributor to the Bowyer fund in 1713; but the date of his death is unknown. Dunton [p. 207] wrote of him: "Mr. John Taylor deals very much and is very honest. ... His principles are moderate." Timperley [p. 588] says that he instituted an annual sermon at the Baptist Church in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to commemorate his escape from death in the great storm of 1703.