James Blackstone (fl. 1738–1763)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 84222

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Names

  • James Blackstone
  • James Brackstone

James Blackstone or Brackstone, bookseller and publisher at the Globe in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange (1738–1763).

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)

BLACKSTONSE or BRACKSTONE (JAMES), bookseller and publisher in London, Globe in Cornhill, 1743–53. Publisher of a sermon on the death of the Rev. Daniel Neal, in 1743; also of the second edition of Neal's History of New England in 1747 [J. C. B. L.], and also an Abridgement of the Life of the Rev. Cotton Mather. In 1753, he was taking advertisements for the Public Advertiser.

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

BRACKSTONE, ———. Of the Globe, in Cornhill. He was agent, along with Amy and Chapman, for Woodfall's London Daily Post. Later he also became an agent for the General Advertiser. His business seems to have flourished particularly between the years 1741 and 1753.

—Frederick T. Wood, 25 June 1931