Thomas Davies

male, deceased (1785)
Thomas Davies (c.1712-85) was a Scottish bookseller and author. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and was for several years on the...
Henry Knox

Henry Knox

male, deceased (1806)
Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 - October 25, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army...
Henry Baker

Henry Baker

male, deceased (1774)
Henry Baker (May 8, 1698-November 25, 1774) was an English naturalist. Baker was born in London. After serving an apprenticeship with a bookseller,...
James Lackington

James Lackington

male, deceased (1815)
James Lackington was a London bookseller who is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade. A shoemaker's son, Lackington taught himself...
Adrienne Monnier

Adrienne Monnier

female, deceased (1955)
Adrienne Monnier (April 26, 1892 - June 19, 1955) was a French poet, bookseller and publisher and an important figure in the modernist writing...
Joseph Whitaker

Joseph Whitaker

male, deceased (1895)
Joseph Whitaker (May 4, 1820 - May 15, 1895), English publisher, was born in London, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of fourteen. After...
Fred Rosenstock

Fred Rosenstock

male, deceased (1986)
Fred Asher Rosenstock (1895-1986) born Selig Usher Rosenstock in 1895 in Biala Potok in Galicia then a province of Austria in the foothills of the...

Bernard Amtmann

male, deceased (1979)
Bernard Amtmann, antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, publisher and founder of Montreal Book Auctions in 1967 and the Antiquarian Booksellers’ As...

Sébastien Gryphe

male, deceased (1556)
Sébastien Gryphe was a German bookseller-printer and humanist.
George Roberston

George Roberston

male, deceased (1898)
George Robertson (1825 - March 23 1898) was a Scottish-Australian businessman, he was an early bookseller and publisher of Australian literature....