Faulkner, George, ? 1703-1775 (printer and bookseller)
Biography
George Faulkner (1703?-75), printer and bookseller, was apprenticed to the printer and bookseller of Cork Hill, Dublin, Thomas Hume. He was made free of the city in 1728 and sworn free of the Guild of St Luke the same year. Evidence from his imprints and from Wilson's Dublin Directory (1760-1837) reveal his business as operating at a succession of Dublin locations: Pembroke Court, Castle Street (1725-August 1726); Christchurch Yard (August 1726-1728); pamphlet shop opposite the Tholsel, Skinner Row (January 1729-May 1730); pamphlet shop in Essex Street (May 1730-62); Blind Quay, at the corner of Parliament Street (1763-5); and Parliament Street (1766-75). From 1726 he was in business with the bookseller and printer James Hoey, but the two separated when Faulkner moved to his new shop in Essex Street in 1730. Faulkner died in Dublin on 30 August 1775.
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George Faulkner: Correspondence to W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1767-1774
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