RA Collection: People and Organisations
Bookseller, publisher, stationer, in London 1698-1725. Address: Rose and Crown, St Paul’s Churchyard (1798-1706); Three Crowns, St Paul’s Churchyard (1708-25). Partner of Thomas Leigh (to 1704), David Mortier (1709), J. Knapton (1714). Father of stationer, bookseller Daniel Midwinter (d. 1757).
Born: before 1689
Died: 1733?
Gender: Male
Pierre Mosnier
The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Graving; And Of those who have Excell'd in them: In Three Books. Containing their Rise, Progress, Decay, and Revival; With an Account Of the most considerable Productions of the best Artists in all Ages: And how to distinguish the true and regular Performances, from those that are otherwise. - By P. Monier, Painter to the French King, and Professor of Painting, and Sculpture in the Royal Academy at Paris. - - London:: [1699]
07/1834
Ephraim Chambers
Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary Of Arts and Sciences; Containing The Definitions of the Terms, And Accounts of The Things signify'd thereby, In the several Arts, Both Liberal and Mechanical, And the several Sciences, Human and Divine: The Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Uses, of Things Natural and Artificial; The Rise, Progress, and State of Things Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, and Commercial: With the several Systems, Sects, Opinions, &c. among Philosophers, Divines, Mathematicians, Physicians, Antiquaries, Criticks, &c. The Whole intended as a Course of Antient and Modern Learning. Compiled from the best Authors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs, Transactions, Ephemerides, &c. in several Languages. In Two Volumes. By E. Chambers Gent. ... Volume the First. (Second.) - London:: [1728]
03/2947