Francis Cogan (fl. 1729–1754)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Names

  • Francis Cogan
  • Francis Coggan

Francis Cogan, bookseller, 1729–1754; at the Blue Ball without Temple Bar, 1729; at the Middle-Temple Gate, Fleet Street, 1729–1754. He was declared bankrupt on two occasions, first in 1746, and again in 1754. Cogan, son of Francis and Margaret Coggan, booksellers, was baptized in the Temple Church 26 August 1703. Francis would have been around four years of age when his father died in 1707. Francis, son of Francis Coggan deceased, was apprenticed to Robert Gosling, Stationer, 5 October 1719 (Board of Stamps: Apprenticeship Books: Series IR 1; Class: IR 1; Piece: 8, National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey). In 1729 he is listed as one of the publishers on the imprint of Ambrose Bonwicke's A Pattern for Young Students in the University (his address, at the Blue Ball without Temple Bar) and in the same year Eliza Haywood's Love-Letters on all Occasions (at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet Street, an address he maintained until his second bankruptcy in 1754).

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)

COGAN (FRANCIS), bookseller and publisher in London at the Middle Temple Gate, 1730–54. Possibly son of Francis Coggan (1699–1707). His name appears in the imprint of Eliza Haywood's Love Letters on All Occasions, published in that year, and also on the London edition of Dean Swift's periodical The Intelligencer, which also appeared in 1730. He was also a publisher of law books. His business was not a success, and he became bankrupt in 1754.

Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History, ed. Ian Maxted (2005–)

Cogan, Francis. Certificate of bankruptcy to be awarded Aug. 5, 1746 for Francis Cogan, Fleet-street, bookseller (LG 15 Jul 1746). Dividend declared for Dec. 15, 1748 (LG 12 Nov 1748). To surrender July 23, Aug 3, Sept. 1, 1752 at Guildhall (LG 21 Jul 1752). Certificate declared for Jan 27, 1753 (LG 6 Jan 1753).