Samuel Billingsley (fl. 1722–1765)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1886

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Samuel Billingsley, bookseller, 1722–1765; at the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane; near the Rolls Gate in Chancery Lane.

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

BILLINGSLEY, S. His name also appears on the same sermon published in 1729 (see J. BILLINGSLEY) and his address is given at the Judge's Head in Chanceiy Lane.

—Ambrose Heal, 13 February 1932

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)

BILLINGSLEY (S.), bookseller in London, Judge's Head, Chancery Lane, 1726. Possibly a relative of Benj Billingsley. [See Dictionary, 1668–1725.] One of the publishers of the Rev. William Webster's Clergy's Right of Maintenance Vindicated, advertised in Wilford's Monthly Catalogue, January 1726.