London, Pickering & Chatto
Owner Id00013829
TypeCorporate body
Biographical dates - Period of existence1878-
Other Informationbooksellers and publishers of London; founded in 1820 by William Pickering (1796-1854), continued by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering, and purchased by Thomas Chatto in 1878; see Pearson, Provenance Research, 163-4.
The form became known as Pickering & Co. between 1854 and 1878, a form used until some time in the mid-1880s (from the evidence of the firm name on dated catalogues), though Thomas Chatto purchased the firm in 1878, and it soon was know as Pickering & Chatto [J. Lancaster, 30 Jan. 2023]
Variant NamesPickering & Co.
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
Activity
Start (year)1878
MARC Area Codee-uk
Profession / Type of InstitutionBooktrade
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
Last Edit2024-03-07 20:44:04