William Keblewhite (fl. 16941702)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

William Keblewhite, bookseller at the Swan in St. Paul's Churchyard; at the White Swan in St. Paul's Churchyard (1694–1702).

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

KEBLEWHITE, or KIBLEWAITE (W.), bookseller in London, Swan, or White Swan, St. Paul's Churchyard. 1694–1702. Dunton [p. 292] distinguishes this bookseller as "London (and sober) Kiblewaite". Keblewhite made his first entry in the Term Catalogues in Hil. 1693/4 with a book of divinity. [T.C. II. 490.] He was publisher for William King, Bishop of Londonderry. He is last heard of in 1702, when he advertised the second edition of Dr. James Keill's Anatomy of the Human Bodie. [T.C. III. 329.]

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

KEBLEWHITE, W. He had been established for several years at the White Swan in St. Paul's Churchyard when the century opened. I have not succeeded in tracing him beyond the end of 1701, but Plomer records a book published by him in the next year. The name is not common, and he may therefore possibly be identical with the "Mr. Keblewite" (sic) whom Dunton notices as a bookseller in the Isle of Wight in 1703.

—Frederick T. Wood, 12 September 1931