William Meadows (d. 1760; fl. 1714–1760)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 864

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

William Meadows, bookseller and publisher (1714–60); at the Angel in Cornhill (1714–39); in Cornhill near the Fleece Tavern (1738); in Cornhill (1759–60).

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

MEADOWS (W.), bookseller in London, 1719–25. In 1719 he was the publisher of a novel called Charon, or the Ferry Boat, and in 1721 he was one of the publishers of Paul Chamberlen's series of novels called Love in its Empire. [Esdaile, pp. 185, 183.] He was still publishing in 1725.

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

MEADOWS, W. Appears to have opened his shop at the Angel in Cornhill a little prior to 1720, in which year he published Dennis's 'The Invader of his Country' (a re-working of Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'), and a new edition of D'Urfey's 'Pills to Purge Melancholy.' In both of these ventures he had Brotherton (see ante) as a partner. He was still publishing in 1742.

—Frederick T. Wood, 19 September 1931

 

MEADOWS, WILLIAM. He was still advertising in the London Evening Post in 1747, and Hilton Price, in his 'Signs of Cornhill,' gives him at the Angel, Cornhill up till 1751. The stock of "William Meadows lately deceased" was sold by auction 5 June, 1760.

—Ambrose Heal, 14 November 1931