List of booksellers in Boston

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This is a partial list of booksellers in Boston, Massachusetts.

Booksellers in Boston[]

17th century[]

Heaven's alarm to the world. By Increase Mather. Boston: Printed for Samuel Sewell. And to be sold by John Browning at the corner of the Prison-Lane next to the Town-House. 1682
  • John Allen
  • William Avery
  • Joseph Brunning (a.k.a. Joseph Browning), Court St.
  • Nicholas Buttolph
  • Duncan Campbell
  • James Cowse
  • John Dunton
  • Benjamin Elliott, State St.
  • John Foster
  • Obadiah Gill
  • John Griffin
  • Benjamin Harris, Cornhill
  • Vavasour Harris
  • Elkanah Pembroke
  • Michael Perry
  • Samuel Phillips
  • Edmund Ranger
  • John Ratcliffe
  • Samuel Sewall
  • Andrew Thorncomb
  • Hezekiah Usher
  • John Usher[1]
  • James Wade
  • Richard Wilkins

18th century[]

  • John Amory
  • Andrew Barclay
  • Ebenezer Battelle
  • Nathaniel Belknap
  • Caleb Blanchard, Dock Square
  • Joshua Blanchard
  • Nicholas Boone
  • Nicholas Bowes
  • John Boyles
  • Cox & Berry
  • Caleb Bingham
  • John Boydell
  • George Brownell
  • Alford Butler
  • Alford Butler Jr.
  • John Campbell
  • John Checkley
  • James Foster Condy
  • Jeremy Condy[2]
  • Cox & Berry; Edward Cox; Edward Berry
  • T. Cox
  • Michael Dennis
  • John Edwards
  • Joseph Edwards
  • A. Ellison
  • Benjamin Eliot
  • John Eliot
  • Samuel Eliot
  • John Fleeming, 1760s-1770s
  • John W. Folsom, Union St.
  • Hopestill Foster
  • Philip Freeman
  • Richard Fry
  • Samuel Gerrish
  • Daniel Gookin
  • Nathaniel Gookin
  • Benjamin Gray
  • William Gray
  • Benjamin Guild, 1780s-1790s
  • Thomas Hancock
  • Charles Harrison
  • Daniel Henchman, Cornhill
  • John Hodgson
  • William Lang
  • John Langdon
  • Samuel Kneeland
  • Henry Knox; London Book-Store
  • John Langdon
  • Benjamin Larkin, Cornhill
  • Ebenezer Larkin, Cornhill
  • Thomas Leverett
  • Bennet Love
  • Walter MacAlpine
  • William McAlpine
  • John Mein; London Book-Store
  • William Miller; Rivington & Miller, London Book-Store
  • John Parker
  • William Pelham (bookseller)
  • John Pemberton
  • John Perkins
  • Joanna Perry, King St.
  • Eleazer Phillips (a.k.a. Eleazar Phillips)
  • Gillam Phillips
  • John Phillips
  • William Phillips
  • Nathaniel Proctor
  • Thomas Rand
  • James Rivington; London Book-Store
  • Samuel Robinson
  • Ezekiel Russell
  • Samuel Sewall, Jr.
  • Francis Skinner
  • Joseph Snelling
  • William Spotswood
  • Robert Starkey
  • Samuel Webb
  • David West
  • John West
  • Wharton & Bowes; John Wharton; Nicholas Bowes
  • James White, Court St.
  • Timothy White
  • Joshua Winter
Bradford and Read, Law Book-Sellers. 58 Cornhill Boston, 1811
Samuel T. Armstrong, 1811
Lincoln & Edmands, 1815
Old Corner Bookstore, Washington St.
Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 1823
Fetridge & Co., 1852
William Hyde & Co., 134 Washington St., 1832
Lauriat's, Washington St., 1872
Otis Clapp, Beacon St., 1861
William H. Piper & Co., Washington St.
Mistaken Identity by George H. Coes, issued by Walter H. Baker, Winter St., Boston, 1893

19th century[]

  • Joseph F. Alsworth; Crosby & Alsworth
  • Samuel T. Armstrong, Cornhill
  • N.J. Bartlett
  • William Blagrove; Boston Book Store
  • Boston Chart and Nautical Bookstore, Custom House St.; Charles L. Blake; Robert A. Blake
  • Leonard C. Bowles, Cornhill
  • Osmyn Brewster; Crocker & Brewster
  • George W. Briggs, Washington St.
  • Oliver L. Briggs & Co.
  • Brown, Taggard & Chase, Cornhill
  • Joseph Bumstead, State St.
  • James W. Burditt, Court St.
  • Burnham & Brothers, Cornhill
  • Thomas Burnham, Cornhill
  • James Campbell, Tremont St.
  • George Clark, Dock Sq.
  • Otis Clapp, School St.; Beacon St.
  • Daniel C. Colesworthy
  • George W. Cottrell, Cornhill
  • Crosby & Nichols, Washington St.
  • William Crosby, Washington St.
  • Cummings, Hilliard & Co., Cornhill
  • Robert S. Davis, Washington St.; R.S. Davis & Co.; P. Stearns Davis.
  • William H. Dennet, Washington St.
  • Oliver Ditson
  • Patrick Donahoe, Franklin St.
  • Estes and Lauriat
  • Oliver Everett, Cornhill
  • Charles Ewer, Cornhill
  • Federhen & Co.; Charles Thacher
  • William Pembroke Fetridge
  • Fields, Osgood & Company
  • William B. Fowle, Cornhill
  • Patrick Kevin Foley (a.k.a. P.K. Foley), Bromfield St.
  • James French, Washington St.
  • Richard L. Frye
  • Horace B. Fuller
  • M.H. Gaughan
  • Edwin H. Gill
  • Charles Goodspeed, Park Street[3]
  • Charles D. Gould; Gould & Lincoln
  • Andrew F. Graves, Cornhill
  • Benjamin H. Greene
  • Oliver C. Greenleaf, Court St.
  • William H. Halliday & Co., Cornhill
  • Mrs. Mary Hickey, High St.
  • Hickling, Swan & Brewer, Washington St.; Thomas M. Brewer
  • Henry Hoyt
  • Lemuel N. Ide, Washington St.
  • John P. Jewett, Cornhill
  • David P. King, Washington St.
  • Charles Lauriat
  • Joshua Lincoln; Gould & Lincoln
  • Little, Brown & Co.; Augustus Flagg
  • Littlefield's, Cornhill
  • James Loring, Cornhill, Washington Street[4]
  • Josiah Loring, South Row
  • Bela Marsh
  • Hugh McDonnell, Washington St.
  • George M. Merriam, Newbury (Washington) St.
  • Israel Moody, Washington St.
  • B. B. Mussey, Cornhill
  • Munroe & Francis; Edmund Munroe, David Francis; Court St., Cornhill
  • Sam F. Nichols; Nichols & Hall
  • Old Corner Bookstore, Washington & School St.
  • James R. Osgood & Co., Washington St.; E. Libby.
  • James A.G. Otis, Washington St.
  • Samuel H. Parker
  • Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; West Street Bookstore
  • Oliver L. Perkins, Cornhill
  • James M. Piper
  • William J. Reynolds & Co., Cornhill
  • Benjamin B. Russell, Washington St.
  • Francis S. Saxton, State St.
  • Schoenhof & Moeller; Carl Schoenhof, Fanny Moeller
  • Nathaniel S. Simpkins, Brattle St.
  • George A. Snow; Snow, Boyden & Knight
  • C.C. Soule
  • William V. Spencer
  • Charles Stimpson, Washington St.
  • Strong & Brodhead, Cornhill
  • Swedenborgian Book Store, Tremont St.
  • Tappan & Whittemore, Washington St.
  • Joseph Teal, Hanover St.
  • William P. Tewksbury, Washington St.
  • Ticknor and Fields
  • John B. Tileston; Brewer & Tileston
  • Abel Tompkins, Cornhill
  • John Turner
  • William Veazie
  • John X. Watson
  • Thomas Wells, Hanover St.
  • Wells & Lilly; William Wells and Robert Lilly, Court St.
  • Henry White
  • Rev. Thomas Whittemore, Cornhill
  • John K. Wiggin; Wiggin & Lunt

20th century[]

  • J.Q. Adams & Co.
  • Avenue Victor Hugo, Newbury St.
  • E.E. Babb & Co.
  • Walter H. Baker & Co.
  • N.J. Bartlett & Co.
  • C.E. Beale
  • F.W. Bird
  • Boston Book Co.
  • John A. Boyle & Co.
  • Buddenbrooks
  • Burnham's Antique Book Store; Richard C. Lichtenstein
  • William A. Butterfield
  • H.M. Caldwell Co.
  • H.H. Carter & Co.
  • Theo. H. Castor & Co.
  • W.B. Clarke Co.
  • William G. Colesworthy
  • C. James Connelly
  • H.M. Connor
  • Curtis & Cameron
  • Cupples & Schoenhof
  • DeWolfe & Fiske Co.
  • Eaton & Mains
  • Dana Estes & Co.
  • Thomas J. Flynn
  • Patrick Kevin Foley (a.k.a. P.K. Foley), Beacon St.
  • Four Seas Company, Copley Sq.
  • Garden Side Book Shop, Boylston St.
  • Ginn & Co.
  • Globe Corner Bookstore
  • Goodspeed's Book Shop[3]
  • J.L. Hammett Co.
  • Mrs. H.L. Hastings
  • D.C. Heath & Co.
  • F.C. Herrick, Copley Sq.
  • Home Library and Supply Assoc.
  • Houghton & Dutton
  • Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Park St.
  • George W. Humphrey
  • Jordan Marsh
  • Keep's Book Store, Columbus Ave.
  • E.L. Kellogg & Co.
  • Knight & Millet, Columbus Ave.
  • C.A. Koehler & Co.
  • Lauriat's, Washington St.
  • A.A. Lewis, Hanover St.
  • C.F. Libbie
  • Little, Brown and Company
  • George E. Littlefield, Cornhill
  • Lee Lothrop & Shepherd
  • A.D. Maclachlan
  • Bertha Mahony
  • Mutual Book Co., Franklin St.
  • A.J. Ochs Co.; Boston Neck Book Store, Washington St.
  • Old Corner Book Store, Bromfield St.
  • Pitts-Kimball Co.
  • George H. Polley, Court St.
  • John A. Ryan, Brattle St.
  • Smith & McCance, Bromfield St.
  • South End Book Store, Washington St.
  • Waterstone's[5]
  • R.H. White & Co.
  • Women's Educational and Industrial Union; Bookshop for Boys and Girls
Lucy Parsons Center, Columbus Ave., 2007

21st century[]

See also: List of independent bookstores in the United States and List of bookstore chains
  • Ars Libri, Harrison Ave.
  • Barnes & Noble
  • F. A. Bernett Books
  • Border's
  • Boston Book Company
  • Brattle Book Shop, West St.[6][7][8]
  • Bromer Booksellers, Boylston St.
  • Buddenbrooks, Newbury Street
  • Commonwealth Books
  • James F. O'Neil
  • Lucy Parsons Center, Columbus Ave.
  • Peter L. Stern & Co.
  • Trident Booksellers, Newbury St.

See also[]

Sources[]

17th-century
  • Isaiah Thomas. History of printing in America, 2nd ed. 1874.
  • George Emery Littlefield (1900), Early Boston booksellers 1642-1711, Boston: The Club of odd volumes, OCLC 3573345, OL 6929406M Google books
  • George Emery Littlefield. The early Massachusetts press, 1638-1711. Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1907.
  • Worthington Chauncey Ford. The Boston book market, 1679-1700. Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1917.
18th-century
19th-century
20th-century

References[]

  1. ^ William S. Reese (1990), The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers and Collectors, American Antiquarian Society, archived from the original on 2015-01-19
  2. ^ Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," in Printing and Society in Early America. Joyce et al. eds., Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983
  3. ^ a b "George Talbot Goodspeed" (PDF), Proceedings, American Antiquarian Society, 1997
  4. ^ Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, ed. Lois Brown (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 152n65
  5. ^ Bookstores' demise a sad chapter. Boston Globe. May 23, 1999.
  6. ^ R. S. Kindleberger. Brattle's new home; 3 doors away on West St. Boston Globe, Feb 10, 1980. pg. 1
  7. ^ Wendy Fox. Q.& A. with Ken Gloss, owner of the Brattle Book Shop. Boston Globe. Nov 16, 1997. pg. 2
  8. ^ Sam Allis. Secondhand gold; Bookshop's storied history speaks volumes. Boston Globe. Aug 26, 2007

External links[]

  • Library Thing. Boston listings
  • Chuck Whiting (ed.). "(Boston)". Bibliophemera – via Blogspot.
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