Somerset Draper

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Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
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)

DRAPER (SOMERSET), bookseller and publisher in London, 1743–53. In 1743 he obtained the publication of the Bishop of Chichester's Sermon preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at their annual meeting on Friday, February 18th, 1742/3. [B.M. 694. f. 14 (8).] His name appears with several others as part proprietor in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius. [Public Advertiser, January 5th, 1753.]