James Robson (bookseller)

Title page of State Worthies by David Lloyd, Revised by Charles Whitworth, Printed by J Robson.

James Robson (1733–1806) was an English printer and bookseller. He was born in Sebergham, Cumberland.^[1]

The title page of the 1766 edition of State Worthies by David Lloyd says: "Printed for J Robson, Bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, in New Bond-Street."

Publications

• Supplemental volume to Denton, Revd Thomas, New Biographical Dictionary, 1764^[1]
• Gilpin, William, Essay on Prints, 1765 (First edition)^[1]
• Lloyd, David, State Worthies, 1766.^[1] Revised by Charles Whitworth.^[2]
• Jerningham, Edward, The Deserter, 1770^[1]
• Cumberland, Richard, Odes, 1776.^[1][3]

References

1. Landon, Richard, Robson, James (1733–1806), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2012. (Access via libraries).
2. Williams, William Rees (1900). "Whitworth, Charles (1714?-1778)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 162–163.
3. Cumberland, Richard, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Written by Himself, Philadelphia, Parry and McMillan, 1856, p 195

External links

• Landon, Richard, Robson, James (1733–1806), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2012. (Access via libraries).
• Tedder, Henry Richard (1897). "Robson, James" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. pp. 61–62.
• WorldCat: Robson, James 1733-1806