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Boydell, John, 1720-1804

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Personal name headingBoydell, John, 1720-1804
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Variant(s)Boydell, John, 1719-1804
Associated countryGreat Britain
LocatedLondon (England)
Birth date1720-01-19
Death date1804-12-12
Field of activityPrints--Publishing Engraving
Profession or occupationPrintmakers Engravers Publishers and publishing
Found inHis The Boydell Shakespeare ... 1873.
George Glazer Gallery website, 11/4/2003 (John Boydell, a successful and influential printseller and engraver; his Shakespeare Gallery created a market for historical and literary works; a successful entrepreneur in print publishing and retailing; became Lord Mayor of London in 1790)
Oxford DNB online, 9 Sept. 2014 (John Boydell (1720-1804), engraver and printseller; born at Dorrington in Shropshire on 19 January 1720; like other men of his day he was disinclined to lose a year of his life to the change in calendar, and so always gave the year of his birth in old style, as 1719; he died 12 December 1804)
Wikipedia, 9 Sept. 2014 (John Boydell, born 19 January 1720 (New Style), died 12 December 1804, was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings)
LC manual files: (hdg.: Boydell, John, 1719-1804)
Associated languageeng