James Woodward (fl. 1707–1723)
James Woodward, bookseller and publisher; in Christopher's Alley, Threadneedle Street, near St. Christopher's Church; St. Christopher's Churchyard behind the Royal Exchange, 1707– ca. 1711; Scalding Alley, near the Royal Exchange, ca. 1711–23.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
WOODWARD (JAMES), bookseller in London, (i) (a) St. Christopher's Alley, Threadneedle Street, near St. Christopher's Church, (b) St. Christopher's Churchyard, behind the Royal Exchange, 1707–9; (2) Scalding Alley, near the Royal Exchange, 1707–23. First met with in Mich. 1707, when he advertised The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. [T.C. III. 571.] In 1708 he published Motteux's Rabelais. [T.C. III. 600.] He was still in business in 1723. [Nichols, Lit. Anecd., i. 256.J
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
WOODWARD, JAMES. Plomer gives a second address for this bookseller. Sometime after 1711 he moved from St. Christopher's Churchyard to Scalding Alley, which was in the Poultry, and remained there till 1723.
—Ambrose Heal, 19 December 1931