Peter Elmsley

Contributions

1. A letter from Earl Stanhope, to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Containing a short answer to his late speech on the French Revolution has translation publisher
2. Histoire d'Angleterre, en forme de lettres d'un seigneur à son fils. Traduite de l'Anglois à l'usage des Ecoles translation has paratext bookseller

Knows

• Joseph de Boffe bookseller publisher
• Thomas Cadell bookseller civil servant publisher
• James Dodsley bookseller publisher writer
• John Murray bookseller publisher
• Giovanni Povoleri editor poet professor teacher translator
• George Robinson bookseller publisher
• Thomas Spilsbury bookseller publisher
• George Stafford publisher
• Paul Vaillant bookseller civil servant publisher
• John Walter bookseller publisher
• John Wilkes journalist politician translator writer

Notes

Based on 87 Strand from 1767–1802. Collaborated with David Bremmer from 1797–1802.

Originally from Aberdeenshire, he took over the publishing business of Paul Vaillant around 1767. He was friendly with the journalist-politician John Wilkes and linked to numerous other literary figures. Founded the Literary club of booksellers with Cadell and Dodsley.

Sometimes lent his name (often spelt differently) and false London location to the title-pages of illicit publishing operations in France, as for example, Charles Peysonnel's 'Anti-radoteur' (1785).