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  • 23 - Distribution – the case of William Tayler

  • from III - SERIAL PUBLICATION AND THE TRADE
  • Edited by Michael F. Suarez, SJ, University of Virginia, Michael L. Turner, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    29 October 2009, pp 466-478

  • Summary

    This chapter talks about William Tayler who was to be a key player in the information networks of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Beginning with the imprint of John Pendred's Vade mecum of 1785, it attempts to identify Tayler, look at possible antecedents, describe the scope of his activities, and explain the succession of the enterprise, placing it in a historical context. The earliest evidence so far found connecting Tayler with the Warwick Court address is in the land tax assessments where his name first appears in 1784 and continues there until his retirement in 1813. The authors have seen it given in the imprint and content of Pendred's book in 1785, but several later documents imply, or actually state, that 1786 was the year in which the Warwick Court business was established.