Joseph Hazard (fl. 1701–1750)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1187

Joseph Hazard, bookseller, bookbinder, stationer (1701–50) at the Bible in Stationer's Court.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

HAZARD (JOSEPH), bookseller in London, Bible in Stationers' Court near Ludgate, 1716. There is a copy of his advertisement in the Bagford Collection. [Harl. 5961 (314).]

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

HAZARD, JOSEPH. Has been traced by Plomer to the Bible in Stationers' Court, near Ludgate, 1716.

—Frederick T. Wood, 29 August, 1931

 

HAZARD, JOSEPH. The only reference which has been given to this bookseller is that quoted from Plomer in 1716. Hilton Price, in his 'Signs of Ludgate Hill,' gives him at the Bible, Stationers' Court, Ludgate, against Stationers' Hall, from 1705 to 1737. The stock of "Joseph Hazard, leaving off trade," was sold by auction on 9 Oct., 1739. One of his trade-cards is in the Bagford Collection. In the early part of his business career (1705) he was described as bookseller and undertaker. In 1719 he was advertising in the London Journal, in partnership with James Leake.

—Ambrose Heal, 31 Ocotber, 1931