William Lewis

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 23512

Occupations

  • Bookseller
A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

LEWIS (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, Dolphin in Russell St., Covent Garden, 1709–25. An old schoolfellow of Alexander Pope's. Published in 1709 the Works of Robert Gould, 2 vols. [T.C. in. 645], and in 1711 Pope's Essay on Criticism. In 1714, in company with Lintot, he published a reprint of Miscellanies, in which pieces by Pope appeared. Lewis was still publishing in 1725.