Found 3 collections related to Hookham%2C Thomas%2C 1738 or 1739-1819

Charlotte Smith's Celestina (1791) was published by T. Cadell; the 1797 second volume of Elegaic Sonnets and The Young Philosopher (1798) were published by T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies. Manuscript order lists for Charlotte Smith's Celestina, a Novel (2 lists dated 13 July 1791); "A Second Volume" of Elegiac Sonnets (1 list dated 9 June 1797); and The Young Philosopher (1 list dated 11 June 1798). Each list specifies wholesale and retail costs per book. With the names of dozens of London booksellers, along with the numbers of books ordered by each. In some cases (such as with John Murray and Joseph Johnson) it is almost certain that the bookseller's name is an autograph signature; some signatures may have been made by a bookseller's clerk or assistant. The booksllers include: J. A. Arch, R. Baldwin, J. Debrett, C. Dilly, T. J. Egerton, J. Evans, R. Faulder, Forster, H. Gardner, Hookham, J. Johnson, J. Jolliffe, Kearsley, Lane, B. Law Son, Lee Hurst, Longman, J. Murray, Murray Highley, E. Newbery, Nunn, Wm. J. J. Richardson, Rivingtons, Jas. Robson, G. Sael, Scatcherd Co., L. B. Seeley, J. Sewell, H. D. Symonds, W. Treppass, Vernor Hood, J. Walter, B. White Son, and G. T. Wilkie. less

The licensing act of 1737 required that copies of all plays and other stage performances in Great Britain must be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's office for licensing. John Larpent served as Examiner of Plays from November 20, 1778 until his death on January 18, 1824. Soon after their 1782 marriage, Larpent's second wife, Anna Margaretta (neé Porter) acted as her husband's deputy, cataloging and helping to read all productions submitted. The official copies of plays were in Larpent's possession at the time of his death. They were acquired by the Huntington Library in 1917. Manuscript notebook with alphabetical listing of plays (leaves 2-47), and a chronological index (leaves 48-61). In the handwriting of John Larpent and Anna Larpent, who has written two later (post-January 1824) autograph notes on the title page verso, both signed "AML." Red ink is used for dates, headings and underlinings in the alphabetical listing up through the letter "K." Contains some 28 titles not in the Huntington Library's Larpent collection, but a large number of titles in that collection are not in this manuscript list (see D. MacMillan's Catalogue of the Larpent Plays, 1939, page vi, note 5). Quarter calf notebook, marbled boards; with the stationer's ticket of T. Hookham of New Bond Street, corner of Bruton Street. less