Thomas Read

READ (THOMAS), printer in London, (1) behind the Sun Tavern in Fleet Street; (2) Dogwell Court, Whitefriars, Fleet Street,. 1726(?)–1753(?). One of the many busy printing-offices in the neighbourhood of Fleet Street in the eighteenth century. James Read (q. v.) was also connected with it. It was probably established before 1726, when the printer inserted an advertisement of A True Copy of the Paper which Mrs. Catherine Hayes delivered to a Friend in the Daily Journal of May 10th, 1726. The firm published many things, such as Collections of Trials, issued in parts; Seymour's Survey of London and Westminster, and The English Traveller, in three volumes, illustrated with maps of the various counties. Read was also the printer of many pamphlets. In 1739 he stood bail for John Purser, a fellow printer (q. v.) Youths' Friendly Monitor was printed and sold by T. Read, Dogwell Court, in 1753. [Public Advertiser, January 12th, 1753.]

READE, T. The publisher of a work, 'The Whole Duty of Woman' which appeared in 1737. In 1741 he advertises from Dogwell Court, in White Friars.

—Frederick T. Wood, 26 September 1931