List of booksellers in Boston

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

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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
• 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

• 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.

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 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

• Boston Directory. 1789.
• Isaiah Thomas. History of printing in America, 2nd ed. 1874.
• Henry Knox - Bookseller. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 61. June 1928, p. 227+

19th-century

• Boston Directory. 1823.
• Boston Directory. 1849.
• Boston Directory. 1858.
• Boston Directory. 1868.
• Sargent. Lauriat's, 1872-1922: being a sketch of early Boston booksellers. 1922.

20th-century

• James Clegg. International directory of booksellers and bibliophile's manual. 1906.

References

1. William S. Reese (1990), The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers and Collectors, American Antiquarian Society
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. "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.