John Bew
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John Bew was a bookseller and publisher at 28-29 Paternoster Row
in London
. He was the publisher of The Political Magazine from 1780 to March 1785, when it was taken over by John Murray
. The Magazine was a journal written for an audience of informed gentlemen and often included supplementary maps engraved by John Lodge
. Bew eventually went bankrupt on 27 November 1790.
Paternoster Row
Paternoster Row was a London street in which clergy of the medieval St Paul's Cathedral would walk, chanting the Lord's Prayer . It was devastated by aerial bombardment in The Blitz during World War II. Prior to this destruction the area had been a centre of the London publishing trade , with...
in London
London
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. He was the publisher of The Political Magazine from 1780 to March 1785, when it was taken over by John Murray
John Murray (publisher)
John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
. The Magazine was a journal written for an audience of informed gentlemen and often included supplementary maps engraved by John Lodge
John Lodge
John Charles Lodge is an English musician, best known as bassist and singer of the longstanding rock group The Moody Blues.-Early years:...
. Bew eventually went bankrupt on 27 November 1790.
External links
- Royal Academy of Arts: John Bew
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in British Book Trade History - The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members. Names B