Mary Cooper (fl. 1736–1761)
Mary Cooper, bookseller and publisher, 1736–1761; at the Globe in Ivy Lane; at 8 Paternoster Row. Widow of Thomas Cooper.
Mrs. Mary Cooper, Bookseller in Pater Noster Row, and a Publisher of considerable consequence, died Aug. 5, 1761.—Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 8, p. 453
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
COOPER, MARY. She was the widow of Thomas Cooper, mentioned below, to whose business in Paternoster Row she succeeded some time between 1741 and 1743. She was still conducting it at her death on Aug. 5, 1761. She published Collins's 'Verses addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer.' (1743).
—Frederick T. Wood, 1 August 1931
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)
COOPER (MARY), widow of Thomas Cooper, 1743–61. Mrs. Cooper was associated with Dodsley in several of his publications, including The Oeconomy of Human Life (1750), of which she published the first edition anonymously for him. When The Appendix, or Second Part to the Oeconomy of Human Life, a spurious addition, was published, Mrs. Cooper sold both parts as genuine, despite Dodsley's advertised denials of its genuineness, and in January 1751 issued a second edition of the Appendix which she sold bound up with the genuine first part. She was succeeded in her business by John Hinxman of York, who moved to London. [Mumby.]