Whiston Bristow (fl. 17601765)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Whiston Bristow, bookseller and publisher in St. Paul's Churchyard, next the Great Toyshop (1760–65).

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)

BRISTOW (W.), bookseller and publisher in London, St. Paul's Churchyard, next the Great Toyshop, 1760–5. Is first met with in 1760 as a publisher of pamphlets [J. C. B. L.]. In 1763 his name is found in the imprint to James Scott's poem Every Man the Architect of his own Fortune. Whether he was ny relation to the bookseller of the same name in Canterbury is not known.