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- Samuel Harding
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Samuel Harding
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primary name: Harding, Samuel
- Details
- individual; publisher/printer; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1722 fl.-1755 died
- Address
- (1724) Post House on the Pavement, St Martin's Lane, London
(1730) Bible & Anchor on the Pavement, St Martin's Lane, London (presumably the same as above)
- Biography
- Bookseller and printseller. Working as a bookseller from 1724, later also as a printseller, at the Bible & Anchor which he inherited from his father in 1734.
Published in 1730 the 'Repertorium Sculptile-Typicum', a small octavo translating the dictionary of engravers' marks of P.A. Orlandi of 1704. Advertises at end: 'He buys any collection of books of sculpture, or single prints'.
Trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,17.64) advertises "Samuel Harding Bookseller & Stationer...selleth books in all languages & faculties; imperial and other large papers for drawing & all smaller sorts, gilt or plain, pens, quills, ink, wax, wafers; also most excellent black ink call'd Amsterdam-Ink, of his own making at six pence per bottle. Account books of all sorts, either for shops or memorandums, Bibles & com. prayers of all sizes, in Turkey or calves leather with great variety of books of devotion. Where may be had money for any library or parcell [sic] of books, likewise for prints & books of sculpture & books neatly bound in all kinds of binding."
A hand-written note by Heal on the mount provides further information.
Not to be confused withhis father, Samuel Harding (1695-1775). The father of Samuel Harding senior was the bookseller John Harding.
- Bibliography
- www.bbti.bham.ac.uk