Stanley Crowder (d. 1798; fl. 1755–1798)
Stanley Crowder, bookseller, stationer, and publisher (1755–94); at the Looking Glass over against St. Magnus Church (1755–60); at the Golden Ball in Paternoster Row (1760–70); at 12 Paternoster Row (1760–86 / 1788?).
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)
CROWDER (STANLEY), bookseller and publisher in London, (1) The Looking-Glass, over against St. Magnus Church, London Bridge, 1755–60; (2) The Golden Ball in Paternoster Row, 1760–70. 1755–70. Apprentice to Sir James Hodges the bookseller on London Bridge, and appears to have occupied the same premises from 1755 until the tenants of the Bridge received notice to quit in 1760. He appears to have been a short time in partnership with H. Woodgate (q. v.), and the firm was then known as S. Crowder and Company. They afterwards moved to Paternoster Row, where Nichols says they carried on a wholesale trade. In 1768 they took seven sets of the Novum Test. Graecum. The partnership was dissolved in 1769, and Crowder carried on the business alone; but he met with misfortune, his premises being entirely destroyed by fire during the year 1770. He then applied for and obtained the post of Clerk to the Commissioners of the Window Tax for the City of London. In 1775 S. Crowder of Paternoster Row was publishing the Ladies Complete Pocket Book with Carnan and R. Baldwin, and was one of the partners in Gay's Fables the same year. [Public Advertiser, January 10th.] He died on May 23rd, 1798. [N. & Q. 6 S. VII. 461; Timperley, 1842, p. 721; Nichols, III. 720.]