George Harris (fl. 1703–1726)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 85808

George Harris, bookseller (1703–26) at the Queen's Head / next door to the Bagnio in St. James's Street.

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

HARRIS (GEORGE), bookseller in London, Queen's Head, St. James's Street, 1703–21. Published in 1703 a volume of verse called Poems on Several Occasions, [B.M. 11633. e. 52.] In 1721 he was one of the publishers of Paul Chamberlen's series of novels called Love in its Empire. [Esdaile, p. 183.] 

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

HARRIS, GEORGE. Of the Queen's Head, St. James' Street. He first appears as a bookseller in 1703, when he issued an anonymous volume of 'Poems on Several Occasions.' He was still in business in 1721. The "S. Harris" who in 1703 published a novel entitled 'A Banquet for Gentlemen and Ladies ' may be identical with him, the S being a printer's error for G.

—Frederick T. Wood, 29 August 1931