Ilive, Jacob

County:

London

Town:

London

Address(es):

Aldersgate St, o/a Aldersgate Coffee Hse (1730). London Hse, Aldersgate (1746)

Book Trade(s):

Printer, Typefounder

Non-Book Trade(s):

-

Trading Dates:

1729 – 1763

Biographical Dates:

1729 (or earlier) – 1763 (date of death)

Notes:

Also at Maidstone. Successor to parents Jane & Thomas Ilive/Iliff; bro Isaac & Abraham Ilive. Correspondence with Francis Blomefield, 1737. Sold typefoundry to John James 1740.

  Abbreviations

Sources:

Bell, Maureen, 'A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade, 1540-1730', MLS dissertation, Loughborough University of Technology (1983)

Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

(Unknown)

Source details: The correspondence of Francis Blomefield (1705-1752), ed. David Stoker, (1992).

Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, quarterly periodical, published by OUP.

Extra source information: 1990 vol.12 no.2 6th series

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)