J. G. S. B. Bohn
British bookseller and bibliographer
James George Stuart Burges Bohn (20 December 1803, London – 4 January 1880, Peckham) was a British bookseller and bibliographer.
Family
Bohn was son of John Bohn, a London bookseller, who died on 13 October 1843, in his eighty-sixth year. The translator and publisher Henry George Bohn (1796–1884) was his brother.
Bookseller
After an education at Winchester, James was sent to Göttingen to perfect himself in German and French. He helped his father for some years, but in February 1834 started bookselling on his own account at 12 King William Street, Strand. Here his great knowledge of books soon attracted many customers, and his shop became a meeting-place for some of the most learned men of the day. In 1840 he published a 792-page catalogue: its contents included nearly complete lists of the works of Gilbert Burnet, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hearne, and Joseph Ritson.
Family Herald
Bohn was not successful at that location and, in 1845, had to start again at 66 St. James's Street. Here he republished William Dugdale's Monasticon in eight heavy folio volumes.
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