Thomas Hookham

Thomas Hookham (ca.1739–1819)[1] was a bookseller and publisher in London in the 18th-19th centuries. He issued works by Charlotte de Bournon, John Hassell, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret, Ann Radcliffe,[1] Clara Reeve, and others. As part of his business he ran a circulating library,[2][3] established in 1764 and by the 1800s one of "the two largest in London."[4][nb 1] The library continued on Bond Street until it was acquired by Mudie's ca.1871.[7][8] In addition, about 1794 he opened the Literary Assembly subscription reading rooms stocked with periodicals and reference books.[1]

His sons, Thomas Hookham, Jr. (1787-1867) and Edward T. Hookham also worked as publishers and booksellers in London.[9] A third generation, Thomas Hookham and Henry Hookham, continued in the business into the mid 19th century.[10]

Notes
  1. Competitors included circulating libraries of John Bell,[2] John Boosey,[2] John Booth,[5] Carpenter,[5] Cawthorn,[5] Cheesewright,[5] Creighton,[5] Thomas Dangerfield,[5] Dutton,[5] William Earle,[5] William Lane,[5] John Noble, David Ogilvy,[5] Parson,[5] Tegg,[5] and Thomas Vernor.[2][6]

References
  1. Roger Ingpen, ed. (1912). "Shelley's Correspondents: Thomas Hookham, Junr.". Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London.
  2. John Trusler (1790), "Conveniences in London", London Adviser and Guide (2nd ed.), Printed for the author at the Literary-Press, OCLC 15076772
  3. Paul Kaufman (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57 (7): 1–67. doi:10.2307/1006043. JSTOR 1006043.
  4. Peter Garside (1991). "Popular Fiction and National Tale: Hidden Origins of Scott's Waverley". Nineteenth-Century Literature. 46 (1): 30–53. doi:10.2307/3044962. JSTOR 3044962.
  5. John Feltham (1807). "Circulating Libraries". Picture of London, for 1807 (8th ed.). London: Richard Phillips.
  6. Ian Maxted (2007), "Thomas Hookham", The London Book Trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members, Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History
  7. Alden, Henry (October 1866), "English and Foreign Library Company, Limited. Late Hookham's Library, established 1764 (advert)", Alden's Illustrated Family Miscellany, Oxford, Cheap reading for the million
  8. Guinevere L. Griest (1965). "A Victorian Leviathan: Mudie's Select Library". Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 20 (2): 103–126. doi:10.2307/2932540. JSTOR 2932540.
  9. Lord Byron (1973), "Famous in My Time": 1810-1812, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674089413
  10. William Tinsley (1900), Random recollections of an old publisher, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., OCLC 1655793, OL 6902927M

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