James Waugh (d. 1766; fl. 1747–1766)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1394

Occupations

  • Apothecary
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Stationer

James Waugh, bookseller, publisher, and stationer; at Turk's Head in Gracechurch Street (1748); at the Turk's Head in Lombard Street (1755–64).

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

WAUGH, JAMES. He was originally an apothecary, but in 1735 he married Mrs. Fenner, the widow of a bookseller and stationer (perhaps Enoch Fenner of Canterbury, who had died in 1729, making Knaplock, Mount and Birt his executors). They set up business at the Turk's Head in Lombard Street, where they were still trading in 1750. Waugh's stock was sold out in 1768.

—Frederick T. Wood, 24 October 1731

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)

WAUGH (JAMES), bookseller in London, the Turk's Head, Lombard Street, 1747–52. His name is found in 1747 as publisher of Doddridge's Life of Col. Jas. Gardiner. Again in 1752 as publishing a work called The Christian's Triumph over Death, and in 1757 a collection of Psalms and Hymns.