Booksellers in Boston

17th century

• John Allen
• William Avery
• Joseph Brunning (a.k.a. Joseph Browning), Court St.
• Nicholas Buttolph
• Duncan Campbell
• James Cowse
• John Dunton
  John Dunton
  John Dunton was an English bookseller and author. In 1691, he founded an Athenian Society to publish The Athenian Mercury, the first major popular periodical and first miscellaneous periodical in England.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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
• James Wade
• Richard Wilkins

18th century

• John Amory
• Andrew Barclay
• Ebenezer Battelle
  Ebenezer Battelle
  Ebenezer Battelle was an American Revolutionary War veteran, a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, and a settler of Marietta, Ohio, in the late 18th century.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nathaniel Belknap
• Caleb Blanchard, Dock Square
  Dock Square (Boston, Massachusetts)
  Dock Square in Boston, Massachusetts is a public square adjacent to Faneuil Hall, bounded by Congress Street, North Street, and Union Street. Its name derives from its original location at the waterfront. From the 1630s through the early 19th-century, it served boats in the Boston Harbor as "the...
  
  
• Joshua Blanchard
• Nicholas Boone
• Nicholas Bowes
• John Boyles
• Cox & Berry
• Caleb Bingham
  Caleb Bingham
  Caleb Bingham was a textbook author of late 18th-century New England, whose works were also influential into the 19th and 20th. Among his most influential works were books on oratory, or public speaking. A native of Salisbury, Connecticut, he spent much of his career in Boston, Massachusetts as...
  
  
• John Boydell
• George Brownell
• Alford Butler
• Alford Butler Jr.
• John Campbell
• John Checkley
• James Foster Condy
• Jeremy Condy
• Cox & Berry; Edward Cox; Edward Berry
• T. Cox
• Michael Dennis
• John Edwards
• Joseph Edwards
• A. Ellison
• Benjamin Eliot
• John Eliot
• Samuel Eliot
• John Fleeming
  John Fleeming
  John Fleeming or John Fleming was a printer, publisher and bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.-Biography:Fleeming moved from Scotland to Boston around 1764. In 1765 he worked with William M'Alpine as a publisher/bookseller on Marlborough Street...
  
  , 1760s-1770s
• John W. Folsom, Union St.
  Union Street (Boston, Massachusetts)
  Union Street is a street in Boston, Massachusetts, near Faneuil Hall and the North End. Prior to 1828, it was also called Green Dragon Lane.-See also:* First Baptist Church * James Franklin * Green Dragon Tavern...
  
  
• Hopestill Foster
• Philip Freeman
• Richard Fry
• Samuel Gerrish
  Samuel Gerrish
  Samuel Gerrish was a bookseller and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He kept a shop "near the brick meeting house in Cornhill," and published works by Thomas Prince and others. He married Mary Sewall in 1709; children included Samuel Gerrish .-Published by Gerrish:* Thomas...
  
  
• Daniel Gookin
• Nathaniel Gookin
• Benjamin Gray
• William Gray
• Benjamin Guild
  Benjamin Guild
  Benjamin Guild was a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He ran the "Boston Book Store" and a circulating subscription library in the 1780s and 1790s at no.59 Cornhill, "first door south of the Old-Brick Meeting-House."...
  
  , 1780s-1790s
• Thomas Hancock
  Thomas Hancock (merchant)
  Thomas Hancock was a merchant in colonial Boston. He got his start in the book trade, and expanded into importing and exporting throughout the British Empire. He was also a smuggler, evading the British Navigation Acts by trading with Holland, which was forbidden...
  
  
• Charles Harrison
• Daniel Henchman, Cornhill
• John Hodgson
• William Lang
• John Langdon
• Samuel Kneeland
  Samuel Kneeland (printer)
  Samuel Kneeland was a Boston printer and publisher.-Biography:He was apprenticed to Benjamin Green, and for many years was printer to the government and council, printing also the laws and journals of the house of representatives...
  
  
• Henry Knox
  Henry Knox
  Henry Knox was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, and also served as the first United States Secretary of War....
  
  ; London Book-Store
• John Langdon
• Benjamin Larkin, Cornhill
• Ebenezer Larkin, Cornhill
• Thomas Leverett
• Bennet Love
• Walter MacAlpine
• William McAlpine
• John Mein
  John Mein (publisher)
  John Mein was a Boston, Massachusetts, bookseller and publisher in the time before the American Revolution...
  
  ; London Book-Store
• William Miller; Rivington & Miller, London Book-Store
• John Parker
• William Pelham (bookseller)
  William Pelham (bookseller)
  William Pelham was a bookseller and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He kept a shop and circulating subscription library at no.59 Cornhill, 1796-1810.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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

19th century

• Joseph F. Alsworth; Crosby & Alsworth
• Samuel T. Armstrong
  Samuel Turell Armstrong
  Samuel Turell Armstrong was a U.S. political figure. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a bookseller in Boston, and among other works published a stereotype edition of Scott's family Bible, which was widely circulated.Orphaned at the age of thirteen, Samuel Armstrong attended public...
  
  , Cornhill
• N.J. Bartlett
• William Blagrove
  William Blagrove
  William Blagrove was a bookseller, publisher and librarian in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century. He ran the Union Circulating Library, a subscription library, from 1804 through 1811; it was located on School Street...
  
  ; 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.
• 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
  Oliver Ditson
  Oliver Ditson was an American businessman and founder of Oliver Ditson and Company, one of the major music publishing houses of the late 19th century. Ditson began his business with Samuel H...
  
  
• Patrick Donahoe, Franklin St.
• Estes and Lauriat
• Oliver Everett, Cornhill
• Charles Ewer, Cornhill
• Federhen & Co.; Charles Thacher
• William Pembroke Fetridge
  William Pembroke Fetridge
  William Pembroke Fetridge was a travel writer, publisher, bookseller and periodicals distributor. He lived in the Boston, Massachusetts area and in Paris, France.- Brief biography :...
  
  
• 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 St.
• 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
• Josiah Loring, South Row
• Bela Marsh, Cornhill
• Hugh McDonnell, Washington St.
• George M. Merriam, Newbury (Washington) St.
• Israel Moody, Washington St.
• Munroe & Francis; Edmund Munroe, David Francis; Court St., Cornhill
• Sam F. Nichols; Nichols & Hall
• Old Corner Bookstore
  Old Corner Bookstore
  The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic building in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the corner of Washington and School Streets, along the Freedom Trail of revolutionary and early American historic sites.-History:...
  
  , Washington & School St.
• Osgood & Co., Washington St.; E. Libby.
• James A.G. Otis, Washington St.
• Samuel H. Parker
  Samuel H. Parker
  Samuel Hale Parker was a publisher and bookseller in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He published musical scores as well as novels, sermons, and other titles...
  
  
• Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
  Elizabeth Peabody
  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.-Biography:Peabody was born in Billerica,...
  
  ; West Street Bookstore
• Oliver L. Perkins, Cornhill
• James M. Piper
• Benjamin B. Russell, Washington St.
• Francis S. Saxton, State St.
• Schoenhof & Moeller; Carl Schoenhof
  Carl Schoenhof
  Carl Schoenhof was a bookseller and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th-century. He specialized in foreign books. Born in Carlsruhe, Germany, he attended University of Heidelberg. He moved to the U. States around 1864. Shortly thereafter he worked for Boston publishers DeVries, Ibarra...
  
  , Fanny Moeller
• Nathaniel S. Simpkins
  Nathaniel Stone Simpkins
  Nathaniel Stone Simpkins was a bookseller, publisher, and legislator in Massachusetts in the 19th century. He ran a bookshop and circulating library in Boston ca.1820-1830. "In 1835 he established the Barnstable Journal [of Barnstable, Massachusetts], and in 1856 he established the Yarmouth...
  
  , Brattle St.
• George A. Snow; Snow, Boyden & Knight
• William V. Spencer
• Charles Stimpson, Washington St.
• Strong & Brodhead, Cornhill
• Swedenborgian Book Store, Tremont St.
• Joseph Teal, Hanover St.
• William P. Tewksbury, Washington St.
• Ticknor and Fields
  Ticknor and Fields
  Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts.-Early years:In 1832 William Davis Ticknor and John Allen began a small publishing business which operated out of the Old Corner Bookstore located on Washington and School Streets in Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• 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
  Globe Corner Bookstore
  The Globe Corner Bookstore was one of the largest travel book and map retailers in North America. It was located at 90 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square...
  
  
• Goodspeed's Book Shop
• J.L. Hammett Co.
• Mrs. H.L. Hastings
• D.C. Heath & Co.
  D. C. Heath and Company
  D.C. Heath and Company was an American publishing company located at 125 Spring Street in Lexington, Massachusetts, specializing in textbooks.-History:...
  
  
• F.C. Herrick, Copley Sq.
• Home Library and Supply Assoc.
• Houghton & Dutton
• Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Park St.
• George W. Humphrey
• Jordan Marsh
  Jordan Marsh
  Jordan Marsh & Company was a department store in Boston, Massachusetts, which grew to be a major regional chain in the New England area of the United States. In 1996, the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were converted to Macy's. The store was formerly part of Allied Stores and then Federated...
  
  
• 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
  Little, Brown and Company
  Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:...
  
  
• George E. Littlefield, Cornhill
• Lee Lothrop & Shepherd
• A.D. Maclachlan
• Bertha Mahony
  Bertha Mahony
  Bertha Mahony , also known as Bertha Mahony Miller, is considered a figurehead of the children’s literature movement. She created one of the first children’s bookstores in Boston, Massachusetts. Mahony was also the founder of the Horn Book Magazine...
  
  
• 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
  Waterstone's
  Waterstone's is a British book specialist established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone that employs around 4,500 staff throughout the United Kingdom and Europe....
  
  
• R.H. White & Co.
• Women's Educational and Industrial Union; Bookshop for Boys and Girls

21st century

• Ars Libri, Harrison Ave.
• Barnes & Noble
  Barnes & Noble
  Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in Manhattan in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalton...
  
  
• F. A. Bernett Books
• Border's
  Borders Group
  Borders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employed approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores....
  
  
• Boston Book Company
• Brattle Book Shop, West St.
• 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

• Isaiah Thomas. History of printing in America, 2nd ed. 1874. 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.

• 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+

• 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.

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

External links

• Librarything.com