John Graves (fl. 1681–1727)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1409

Occupations

  • Bookseller

John Graves, bookseller 1681–1727; at the Bible in Salisbury Street in the Strand; next White's Chocolate House in St. James' 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)

GRAVES (JOHN), bookseller in London, Bible in Salisbury Street in the Strand, 1681–1715. He never used the Term Catalogues. Hazlitt records his imprint in the following: 1681: The Character of a Popish Successour Compleat [Haz. III. 284]; 1695: Urania. A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Our Gracious Queen; 1703: Misery is Virtues Whetstone ... Remains of ... Grace, Lady Gethin; 1715 (with J. Baker): Memoirs of North Britain, [Haz. III. 284, II. 386, I. 184, III. 225.]