Samuel Chandler (fl. 1720–1728)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 68318

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Samuel Chandler, bookseller at the Cross Keys in the Poultry, 1720–8.

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

CHANDLER (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, in the Poultry, c. 1720. A well-known Nonconformist divine; he was forced by the loss of his wife's fortune in the South Sea Bubble to open a bookshop.

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

CHANDLER, SAMUEL. Fl. 1720; was originally a Nonconformist minister, but through the loss of his fortune in the South Sea Bubble was compelled to open a bookseller's shop. His premises were in the Poultry.

—Frederick T. Wood, 1 Auguest 1931

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

CHANDLER (SAM.), bookseller in London, Cross-Keys in the Poultry, 1726–8. See Dictionary, 1668–1725. Continued to sell books until August, 1726. In Novemer of the same year Wilford in his Monthly Catalogue advertised two theological books as sold by J. Chandler at the above address, and in 1727 the Rev. Samuel Chandler's Reflexions on the Deists was "Printed for John Chandler at the Cross Keys in the Poultrey." In 1728 An Essay on the Passions is advertised to be sold by Sam. Chandler in the Poultry, among others.