Christopher Etherington (fl. 1770–1775)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 70825

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Christopher Etherington, printer, bookseller, and publisher in York (1770–75); bookseller and publisher in Rochester (1772–).

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)

ETHERINGTON (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller, printer, and publisher in York, (1) Pope's Head, Coney Street; (2) The Pavement; (3) Coppergate, 1770–5. Began as a bookseller at the sign of Pope's Head in Coney Street. In 1772 he is found with a printing office in Coppergate, from which on December 18th he issued the first number of a weekly newspaper called the York Chronicle. This turned out a failure, and in January 1777 he became bankrupt and became a bookseller at Rochester, Kent. [Timperley, 1842, p. 832.] In 1775 he published with J. Bell of the Strand, Lord Chesterfield's The Principles of Politics. [Public Advertiser, February 1st, 1775.]