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Thomas Williams

1755 – 1839 English Main: London bookseller cleric entrepreneur publisher T. Williams and Co (viaf) E. and T. Williams, Firm (cerl) Williams, Thomas (cerl) Williams, T. (cerl)

Contributions

  1. Explanation of the French Calendar translation publisher uncertainty translator
  2. Extract from Volney's Ruins of Empires publisher
  3. The patriot's pocket companion or complete memorandum book for the year 1797, or fifth and sixth years of the French Republic publisher

Notes

Based at 8 Little Turnstile, Holborn.

Very little known about him. Cerl has him as "Preacher; bookseller in London; later also banker in Wales". Williams was tried and imprisoned for blasphemy for selling Paine's 'Age of Reason'.

See Philip S. Foner, ed., 'Complete Writings of Thomas Paine' (NY: Citadel Press, 1945), 2:272, and Thomas Erskine & Stewart Kyd, 'Speeches on 24 June 1797 on the Trial of T. Williams for publishing Age of Reason (1797, J.S. Jordan).