The British Book Trade Index

MERRICK, Francis & Arnold

BBTI ID

46885

Biographical Date(s)

1826 – 1859

Trade Date(s)

1826 – 1859

Trades

• Bookbinder (primary)
• Bookseller (primary)
• Librarian/owner of circulating library (primary)
• Printer (primary)
• Stationer (primary)
• Music seller (primary)
• Paper-hanger (primary)
• Publisher (primary)
• Newsagent/vendor/man/news agent (primary)
• Pharmacy/medicine (non-book-related) (pharmacist/druggist/chemist/patent medicine seller)
• Music (non-book-related) (musical instrument seller/dealer)
• Insurance (non-book-related) (insurance agent)
• Stamp agent/stamp office (non-book-related) ()
• Pharmacy/medicine (non-book-related) (perfumer)
• Stamp agent/stamp office (non-book-related) (stamp distributor)

Sources:

Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.7: 1830-1839 (Birmingham, 1987) BBS7

Herefordshire directories [17]92, [18]22 etc. HFRD

Morgan, F.C., 'Herefordshire printers and booksellers', Transactions of the Woolhope Field Naturalists' Club (1939-41), pp.106-27; & supplementary notes (Hereford) HFRT

British Chronicle continued as Hereford Journal (sometimes with issue number) HFRJ

Birmingham Bibliographical Society. Information from directories regarding the West Midlands Book Trade, 1840-1850. BBS8

Slater's royal national and commercial directory, (1850)RADMORE125

Pigot, James & Slater, Isaac, Commercial Directory and London & Provincial New Commercial Directory, covering various parts of the country and issued:
1814, 1816, 1818 and 1819
1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825 and 1826
1827, 1828, 1829 and 1830
1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840
1841, 1842, 1844, 1846 and 1847
1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1854 and 1855
For fuller transcriptions of titles see Norton, Jane E., Guide to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales, excluding London, published before 1856 (London, 1950) PIGOT

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