John Applebee (d. 1749; fl. 1718–1749)
John Applebee, printer and bookseller; a little below Bridewell Bridge in Black Fryers; in Fleet Ditch; in Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1740.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
APPLEBEE (JOHN), printer and bookseller in London, (a) a little below Bridewell Bridge in Black-Fryers; (b) Fleet Ditch. 1715–1724. Printer of pamphlets and broadsides. In 1715 he printed the St. James's Evening Post, or Nightly Pacquet," for Samuel Jackson, over against Bridewell-Bridge ". He was also the printer of a Daily Journal and a Weekly Journal bearing his own name. [Timperley, p. 632.] His printing was very bad, and his type worn and old.