William Pearson (fl. 16981735)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Music Printer

William Pearson, printer (1698–1735); Next the Hare & Feathers, Aldersgate (1706); over against Wright's Coffee House in Aldersgate Street (1722); in Red Cross Alley, Jewin Street.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

PEARSON (WILLIAM), printer in London, over against Wright's Coffee House in Aldersgate Street, 1700–25. A printer of music. He printed for John Cullen, Henry Playford, D. Brown, and other noted music publishers. In 1723 he printed R. and J. Barber's Book of Psalmody for Josiah Rathbone, bookseller at Macclesfield in Cheshire, giving the above address. [J. H. Cooke, Bibliotheca Cestriensis, p. 31.]