Thomas Astley

Thomas Astley (died 1759) was a bookseller and publisher in London in the 18th century.[1] He ran his business from Saint Paul's Churchyard (circa 1726-1742) and Paternoster Row (circa 1745).[2] He belonged to the Company of Stationers.[3] He published the celebrated[4] Voyages and Travels which described localities in Africa and Asia, compiling information from travel books by John Atkins, Jean Barbot, Willem Bosman, Theodor de Bry, Francis Moore,[5] Jean-Baptiste Labat, Godefroi Loyer, Thomas Phillips, William Smith, and Nicolas Villaut de Bellefond.[6] It included engravings by G. Child and Nathaniel Parr.[7][8] Astley intended his Voyages to improve upon the previous travel collections of Samuel Purchas, John Harris, and Awnsham & John Churchill.[9] It was read by patrons of Hookham's Circulating Library, Boosey's circulating library,[10] London Institution, Royal Institution, Salem Athenaeum, and Cape Town public library.[11] Astley's Voyages was translated into German (Schwabe (1747–1774), Allgemeine Historie der Reisen, Leipzig) and French (Prévost (1746–1789), Histoire des voyages, Paris).[12]

Advert for Thomas Astley at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1727

Titles issued by Astley

References

  1. Charles Henry Timperley (1839). A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. H. Johnson.
  2. Ian Maxted (2007), "Checklist of members in trade directories and in Musgrave's Obituary", London book trades, 1735-1775, Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History
  3. London Magazine, March 1759
  4. Sheridan Libraries. "Voyages + Travels". Library Guides: Special Collections: Africa, Asia + Oceania. USA: Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  5. Matthew H. Hill (1992), "Towards a Chronology of the Publications of Francis Moore's "Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa", History in Africa, 19: 353–368, doi:10.2307/3172005, JSTOR 3172005, S2CID 161464530
  6. Adam Jones (1986). "Semper Aliquid Veteris: Printed Sources for the History of the Ivory and Gold Coasts, 1500-1750". Journal of African History. 27 (2): 215–235. doi:10.1017/s0021853700036653. JSTOR 181134. S2CID 162344095.
  7. Nathaniel Parr (1745–1747). New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Vol. 3. London: T. Astley. Plate 14 via Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
  8. G. Child (1745–1747). New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Vol. 3. London: T. Astley. Plate 17: Bird's Eye View of Loango via Atlas of Mutual Heritage, Netherlands.
  9. Edward Godfrey Cox (1935). "Collections". Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. Vol. 1: Old World. Seattle: University of Washington. p. 15 via Open Library.
  10. A New Catalogue of the Circulating Library at No. 39, King Street, Cheapside. John Boosey. 1787.
  11. Catalogue of the South African Public Library. Cape Town. 1829.
  12. George Watson, ed. (1974). "Travel: Collections and Histories". New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-20004-2.
  13. Books Printed for T. Astley, at the Rose, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1741
  14. Defoe, Daniel; Carleton, George (1743), Books Printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London
  15. John Russell Bartlett (1870). "Thomas Astley". Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of Books Relating to North- and South-America in the Library of J. Carter Brown.
  16. G. R. Crone (1949), "John Green. Notes on a Neglected Eighteenth Century Geographer and Cartographer", Imago Mundi, 6: 85–91, doi:10.1080/03085694908591935, JSTOR 1149987
  17. G. R. Crone (1951), "Further Notes on Bradock Mead, Alias John Green, an Eighteenth Century Cartographer", Imago Mundi, 8: 69–70, doi:10.1080/03085695108591991, JSTOR 1150056
  18. New general collection of voyages and travels, OCLC 773118890

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