John Walker

(d. 1817)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Walker, John, fl. 1781-1817 LBT ID: JoWalke1817 VIAF ID: 17094414 LOC ID: nr93015232	DIED: 1817-02-22
SOURCES: John Bowyer Nichols, Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century (1858) 8:470; Gentleman's Magazine (February 1817) 189; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
London bookseller from the 1770s; he was the brother-in-law of George Robinson and Common Councilman of the Ward of Farringdon Within. He published John Wolcot.
REFERENCES TO John Walker: John Wolcot to Sir Richard Phillips, [1800?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXII. 1817 Found 1: ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 19: Peter Pindar Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 2: ¶ 63 ¶ 131 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 2