Caesar Ward , Freeman of York, by purchase in 1736. Caesar WARD and Richard CHANDLER Ward and Chandler are two little known English publishers, who flourished from circa 1735 to 1744. Their name is found in the imprint of Thomas Gent's 'Annales Regioduni Hullini: Or, The History Of The Royal And Beautiful Town Of Kingston-Upon-Hull ...' (illustrated with a plan of the town), published in 1735, where they described themselves as "Booksellers In Scarborough, And At Their Shop In Fleet Street, London" Their principal foray into map-publishing was when they acquired the residual stock of Thomas Cox's 'Magna Britannia', which they then re-issued, in 1738, having a new title-page, and some sections of text reprinted. Examples can be found either with the new title-page, or with their address on a paste-on label, over the earlier imprint. The imprint address was '...London, Printed For And Sold By Cµsar Ward And Richard Chandler, Booksellers, At The Ship without Temple Bar, And At Their Shops In Coney Street, York, And At Scarborough Spaw. MDCCXXXVIII.' Unfortunately, business did not go well for the partners, and Chandler committed suicide in 1744. The following year, after unsuccessfully trying to sell off the stock of the 'Magna Britannia', Ward went bankrupt, and his stock auctioned at a trade sale on February 27th 1746. Apart from this advertising card, two catalogues have been seen in the second edition of John Atkins 'A Voyage To Guinea, Brasil, And The West-Indies ...', a six-page listing with the earlier address, and a single page with the second form of address, which includes the shop in York. The tangled history of Cox's 'Magna Britannia' is unravelled in Donald Hodson's 'County Atlases of the British Isles', vol. I, especially entry 129 (Welwyn, Tewin Press, 1989). Their advert says," at the shop without Temple Barr London... at their shop over against the Black swan in Cony Street York and at the Corner of the Long Room at Scarborough" Tory. His wife published Tristram Shandy.
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| Born: 1710 | Baptised: St Sepulchre, London, , , England 2nd Jun 1710
| | Died: York, Yorks., England 24th Apr 1759 | Buried: St Martin's,COney st, York, Yorks., England 27th Apr 1759
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| ??? | Married (marriage) | | ??? | Married (marriage) | | 2nd Jun 1710 | Baptised (baptism) London, England | | 1710 | Born (birth) | | 24th Apr 1759 | Died (death) York, Yorks., England | | 27th Apr 1759 | Buried (burial) York, Yorks., England | | Nov 1759 | Made a will (will) |
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