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Henry Delahoy Symonds

1741 – 1816 London English Main: London bookseller publisher Henry Delahoy Symonds (viaf) Symonds, H. D., Henry Delahoy (cerl) Henry Delahoy Symonds (wikidata)

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  1. An historical sketch of the French Revolution commencing with its predisposing causes, and carried on to the acceptation of the constitution, in 1795. By Sampson Perry publisher
  2. Fragment from Raynal on rights of man translation publisher
  3. French calendar for the third year of the Republic, beginning Sept. 23, 1795, explained by the corresponding days of our style, in opposite columns translation publisher
  4. Leçons à un jeune prince sur la disposition actuelle de l'Europe à une révolution générale translation publisher
  5. Lessons to a Young Prince, on the Present Disposition in Europe to a General Revolution has translation publisher
  6. Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation has translation publisher
  7. Magna Charta. The great charter of King John. A true copy from the original French translation publisher
  8. Military discipline translation publisher
  9. Oaths has other edition publisher
  10. Patriot's calendar, for the year 1796, containing the usual English almanack, the French calendar, with the corresponding days of our stile; the new Constitution of France, the petition of rights, the Bill of Rights, Magna Charta, the King's duties, the coronation oath, a very full and correct chronology of the leading events of the French Revolution, a map of the new division of France, and another of the present theatre of war, &c. &c. translation publisher
  11. The French Constitution adopted by the Convention, Aug. 22, 1795. New Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, and of a Citizen translation publisher
  12. The manual of liberty, or, Testimonies in behalf of the rights of mankind, selected from the best authorities, in prose and verse, and methodically arranged editor publisher
  13. The ruins, or A survey of the revolutions of empires. Part the second, containing the law of nature. Third edition translation has paratext publisher
  14. The ruins, or A survey of the revolutions of empires. Part the second, containing the law of nature. Third edition paratext author

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In a de facto partnership with James Ridgway throughout the 1790s although they rarely shared an imprint out of political prudence. If one was imprisoned for libel or sedition, the other would supervise his partner's business and vice versa.

Imprisoned in Newgate with Ridgway in 1793 for four years for his publication of Paine's 'Letter addressed to the Addressers', a cheap edition of 'The Rights of Man part II', and Charles Pigott's 'The Jockey Club'. In an attempt at plea bargaining, he wrote to the Attorney-General on 22 Feb 1793, "the extensiveness and nature of my business… in which I circulate more books than any man in England, has pointed me out to designing men as their dupe… I am no politician – I know the the contents of books put into my hands for sale, or with my name to them – by these means I have been imposed upon by men deserving of prosecution…" (TS 11/944, Rex vs. HD Symonds).

See Peter Robinson, 'Henry Delahay Symonds and James Ridgway’s Conversion from Whig Pamphleteers to Doyens of the Radical Press, 1788–1793', in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol.108, no.1 (March 2014), pp.61-90.