Catherine Ware (fl. 1737–?)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Names

  • Catherine Ware
  • Catharine Ware

Catherine Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate Hill. Widow of Richard Ware I.

Richard Ware signed a marriage allegation confirming his intent to marry Catherine Game, aged 21 years, both of Christchurch Parish, 29 June 1731. The couple was married by licence 3 July 1731 at St. James, Clerkenwell, in Islington. Catherine would take over his business after his death. She partnered with their son Richard Ware II when he was freed from his apprenticeship in 1759. "C. Ware" continues to appear on imprints until 1785.

15 Dec 1767: A catalogue of books in quires and copies, being the remainder of the stock of Catherine and Richard Ware, leaving off the bookselling business.—Terry Belanger, Booksellers' Sales of Copyright: Aspects of the Londong Book Trade 1718–1768, p. 257

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)

WARE (CATHARINE), bookseller and publisher in London, Bible and Sun, Ludgate Hill, 1761. In partnership with Richard Ware (q. v.).

Ian Maxted, Exeter Working Papers in Book History (2005–present)

Ware, Richard I. November 30 will be published ... the stationer's almanack for the year 1750 ... Sold by Mess. R.Ware ... and by the Printer Edward Ryland, on Ludgate Hill, where copperplates are printed in the best manner ... (London Gazette 14 Nov 1749). On Saturday night last [14 Aug] died at Harefield in Middlesex, Mr. Richard Ware, bookseller and stationer on Ludgate-hill, who acquired a handsome fortune with integrity and reputation: he has left behind him a disconsolate widow, four sons and three daughters (Daily Advertiser 16 Aug 1756—Timperley says 11 Aug). Richard Ware, bookseller and stationer on Ludgate-hill, being deceased, his widow takes this method to inform his friends that she is advised to carry on the trade in all its branches, in the wholesale way, till her sons are of age. Continuance of the customers favours in town and country will be deemed a great obligation, and will always be gratefully acknowledged, by the whole family and Your obliged humble servants Catherine Ware, Richard Ware (Daily Advertiser 16 Aug 1756)

—The London Book trades of the later 18th Century (CC BY-NC 4.0)