Thomas Edlin

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Book Binder

Names

  • Thomas Edlin
  • Thomas Edling

Thomas Edlin, printer, bookseller, and bookbinder; at the Prince's Arms over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand; in Story Passage, St James's Park.

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

EDLIN (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1721–8. One of the publishers of Defoe's Moll Flanders, 1721, and Fortunate Mistress, 1724. [Esdaile, pp. 202–3.]

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

EDLIN, THOMAS. He was one of the publishers of Defoe's 'Moll Flanders' in 1721 and of 'The Fortunate Mistress' in 1724. Plomer traces him to 1728, but then loses sight of him.

—Frederick T. Wood, 15 August 1931

 

EDLIN, THOMAS. A finely engraved trade-card supplies the address of this bookseller "at the Princes Armes over agast Exeter Exchange in the Strand." Plomer gives Thomas Edlin's dates, as 1721–8 and Hilton Price describes him as the printer of the Flying Post in 1728. (See also JOHN EDLIN, above).

—Ambrose Heal, 13 October 1931