| LC control no. | n 88085092 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Spilsbury, John, 1739-1769 |
| Variant(s) | Spilsbury, J. (John), 1739-1769 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1739 |
| Death date | 17690403 |
| Field of activity | Engraving Jigsaw puzzles Prints Maps |
| Profession or occupation | Printmakers Engravers |
| Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL |
| Found in | His A collection of fifty prints, 1785?: t.p. (Mr. John Spilsbury) DNB: v. 18, p. 812 (John Spilsbury, 1730?-1795?; engraver; often confused with brother Jonathan) Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1977 (Spilsbury, John, map engraver and inventor of jigsaw puzzle; 1739-1769) Oxford DNB online, 25 Feb. 2014: under entry for his brother Jonathan Spilsbury (John Spilsbury, born 1739, printmaker, was apprenticed, probably from 1753 to 1760, to Thomas Jefferys (1719-1771), engraver, cartographer, and map and print publisher of St Martin's Lane, Westminster; in 1761 he married Sarah May of Newmarket, Suffolk; Spilsbury's first "jigsaw" puzzle appeared in 1766; advertisements for his business, which was established at Russell Court, off Drury Lane, mentioned prints, maps, and charts, and other books and stationery, plus "all sorts of dissected maps, for teaching geography"; he died on 3 April 1769; his widow ran the business for a short time, then married Harry Ashby, who had been apprenticed with John Spilsbury and later worked with him at Russell Court) |
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