Henry Rhodes

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Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

RHODES, or RODES (HENRY), bookseller in London, next door to the Bear Tavern, Fleet Street, near Bride Lane; (2) next door to the Swan Tavern, Fleet Street, at the corner of Bride Lane; (3) Star, Fleet Street, at, or near the corner of Bride Lane, or near Fleet Bridge. 1681–1709. Possibly a son of Matthew Rhodes (1642) a prolific and miscellaneous publisher. He shared with Joseph Hindmarsh and Richard Lane the copyright of The Turkish Spy. Rhodes was dead before 1725, when his widow married Sir Thomas Masters, knight. [Nichols, Lit. Anecd. VIII. 356.] His various addresses may describe the same house.