LC control no. | n 50052208 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bowles, John, 1701-1779 |
Variant(s) | Bowles, John, firm, London |
See also | John Bowles & Son |
Birth date | 1701 |
Death date | 1779 |
Found in | Maxted, I. The London book trades 1775-1800, 1977: p. 26 (Bowles, John, printseller; trading as John Bowles ca. 1724-54, 1764-79; as John Bowles and son 1754-64; b. 1701; d. 1779) Tooley's dict. of mapmakers, 1999 (Bowles, John (c.1701-1779); younger son of Thomas I, apprenticed to his elder brother Thomas II in the Joiners' Company, set up on his own c.1723 as map and printseller, publisher 'over-against stocks market,' later trading from a variety of addresses in and around Cheapside and Cornhill in London; he frequently co-operated in publication with his brother; his son Carington Bowles joined him in partnership, 1752-1763) |