Thomas Payne
Contributions
- The Chains of Slavery. A work wherein the clandestine and villainous attempts of princes to ruin liberty are pointed out, and the dreadful scenes of despotism disclosed: To which is prefixed, an Address to the Electors of Great Britain in order to draw their timely attention to the choice of proper representatives in the next Parliament has translation publisher
- The state of the poor, or, an history of the labouring classes in England, from the conquests to the present period: In which are particularly considered, their domestic economy, with respect to diet, dress, fuel, and habitation; and the various plans which, from time to time, have been proposed, and adopted, for the relief of the poor has translation publisher
Knows
- Thomas Becket bookseller publisher
- Fanny Burney playwright writer
- John M'Creery publisher
- James Phillips abolitionist bookseller editor entrepreneur publisher
Notes
Important bookseller and publisher based in Castle Street near Leicester Fields (site now occupied by the National Gallery). His shop doubled up as a kind of 'Literary Coffee House'.
His daughter married the brother of the novelist, Fanny Burney.
On his retirement in 1790, he passed on the business to his son, also called Thomas Payne (1752-1831).