Hinton, John

County:

London

Town:

London

Address(es):

34 Paternoster Row nr Warwick La. King's Arms, Newgate St. Bow St, Covent Gdn &c

Book Trade(s):

Bookseller, Newspaper proprietor, Publisher (maps)

Non-Book Trade(s):

-

Trading Dates:

1739 – 1781

Biographical Dates:

1732 (date of apprenticeship) – 1781 (date of death)

Notes:

Apprenticed to Arthur Bettesworth 1732 (BL/APP). See also F & W Hinton (Probably same address). Started the 'Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure' in 1747.

  Abbreviations

Sources:

Alexander, David, ' "Alone worth treble the price": Illustrations in Eighteenth century English Magazines', in A Millennium of the Book: Production, Design and Illustration in Manuscript and Print before 1800, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1994), pp. 107-133.

Kingsley, D., Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900

Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Folkestone, 1977)

Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1735-1775: a checklist of members in trade directories and in Musgrave's 'Obituary' (Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History No.3, 1984)

Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932)

Raven, James, 'Location, Size and Succession: The Book shops of Paternoster Row before 1800', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp. 89-126.