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Whiston, John (1711?–1780);
London bookseller, at Boyle's Head, Fleet Street 1734-66, and 64 Fleet Street 1767-76; see H. R. Plomer, G. H. Bushnell, and E. R. Dix, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932, repr. 1968), 260; Maxted, London Book Trades, 244; Mellot–Queval no. 3926.
♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1711 to unknown year. Period: 18th century.
8 entries:
- A-171(1) Alexander Magnus — Historia de preliis. — [The Netherlands?: Printer of the ‘Historia Alexandri Magni', between 1475 and 1479]. Folio.
- B-220(1) Beroaldus, Philippus — Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris. — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 Dec. 1497. 4°.
- B-483(1) Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry — Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1496. Folio.
- C-196(1) Chronicles: England — Chronicles of England [English]. — St Albans: Schoolmaster Printer, [1485]. Folio.
- C-392(1) Columna, Guido de — Historia destructionis Troiae. — [The Netherlands (Utrecht?): Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW 875) (Gerardus de Leempt?), between 1475 and 1479]. Folio.
- L-146(1) Losa, Alphonsus De, commissary — Indulgentia 1497. For the benefit of the confraternity of S. Jacobus de Compostella. — [Antwerp: Thierry Martens, c.1497]. Broadside.
- P-380(1) Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger) — Epistolae (ed. Philippus Beroaldus). — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 19 Oct. 1498. 4°.
- Z-010(1) Zenders de Wert, Wilhelmus — Lilium grammaticae. — [Zwolle: Peter van Os, between 27 Mar. 1493 and 1 Dec. 1496]. 4°.
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