Friday 22 February 2019

Thomas Corbett - Bookseller


Thomas Corbett 

Bookseller.

Trade Card with Busts.

Busts of Dryden and Shakespeare.

Continuing with occasional posting of sculpture shown in other media -




Trade Card of Thomas Corbett d. 1743.
Fl. 1705 - 43.
next the Rose Tavern without Temple Bar
circa 1730 - 1740.

Image courtesy British Museum

For his son Charles Corbett (1710 - 52?) at the Addison's Head see -

see - http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/details/?traderid=16103

Thomas Corbett published The Whitehall Evening Post or the London Intelligencer


Thomas Corbett was a subscriber to the Complete History of Algiers in 1728.

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Trade Card of Charles Corbett
Image courtesy Bodlein Library.

https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/johnson/online-exhibitions/a-nation-of-shopkeepers/development/trade-cards#gallery-item=

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Cutting from The Whitehall Evening Post. 24 June 1755.






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Extracts from - A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725. Ed. Arundell Esdaile 1922.





For a look at the Oxford Arms see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/07/oxford-arms-warwick-lane-faringdon.html



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