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London bookseller. He served an apprenticeship with Charles Marsh of Round Court and Charing Cross, and opened a bookshop at 50 Strand, near the York Buildings, in 1774. He published works on English literature and antiquities, many edited by himself.
Not to be confused with Thomas Evans (1739–1803), the Welsh-born, London-based bookseller and publisher of the Morning Chronicle and the London Packet, who had an altercation in his Paternoster Row shop with Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) in 1773 due to an article published in the London Packet.
Born: 1742
Died: 30 April 1784
Gender: Male
Benjamin Hederich
Graecum Lexicon Manuale, Primum A Beniamine Hederico Institutum, Post Repetitas Sam. Patricii Curas, Auctum Myriade Amplius Verborum, Innumeris Vitiis Repurgatum, Plurimisque Novis Significatibus Verborum Locupletatum Cura Io. Augusti Ernesti, Nunc Iterum Recensitum, Et Quamplurimum In Utraque Parte Auctum A T. Morell, S. T. P. Thesauri Graecae Poeseos, nuper editi, Autore. - Londini:: [1778]
03/2965
Joseph Baretti
A Dictionary Of The English and Italian Languages. By Joseph Baretti. Improved and augmented with above Ten Thousand Words, omitted in the last Edition of Altieri. To which is prefixed, An Italian and English Grammar. A New Edition. Volume I. (II.) - London,: [1778]
03/2942
Samuel Johnson
The Lives Of The Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations On Their Works. By Samuel Johnson. In Four Volumes. Volume I. (-IV.) - London:: [1781]
03/2894
A Candid review of the exhibition (being the twelfth) of the Royal Academy, M DCC LXXX. : Dedicated to His Majesty. / By an artist. - [1780]
12/3386