John Nourse (1705–1780; fl. 1730–1780)

John Nourse, bookseller and publisher; the Lamb without Temple Bar, 1730/31; the Lamb opposite Katherine Street in the Strand (No. 138), 1745–1780.

Nourse took up an apprenticeship with bookseller John Osborne in 1722, at the Ship, 33 Paternoster Row. In 1730 or 1731 Nourse bought the lease to the Lamb, formerly the shop of bookseller William Mears, at the eastern end of the Strand, the fifth property west of Temple Bar on the south side of the Strand (approximately Nos. 231–2 in Horwood's map). He would remain at this location until 1745, when he moved his premises to a location opposite Katherine Street, No. 138 in the Strand where he would remain until his death in 1780.

Note that the publications listed here include imprints where Continental writers and booksellers adopted his name in order to disguise the publishing origins of their texts. Books published "chez Jean Nourse, Londres," for example, are likely to be false imprints.