EDDOWES, JOSHUA (1724 - 1811), printer and bookseller at Shrewsbury;

Christened 26 April 1724, son of Ralph Eddowes, grocer, Whitchurch, Salop. Joshua Eddowes was in partnership with John Cotton in 1749 if not earlier (see J. H. Davies, Bibliog. of Welsh Ballads); Cotton had been made a freeman of the Combrethren of Saddlers on 6 June 1740, Eddowes being admitted on 26 May 1749. The partnership continued until 1765, Eddowes continuing on his own until 1788, when he took his son, WILLIAM EDDOWES (born 1 October 1754), into partnership. Until the death of Joshua Eddowes on 25 September 1811 the firm traded as J. and W. Eddowes; father and son began to publish the Salopian Journal on 29 January 1794. William Eddowes died 4 February 1833. W. Rowlands (Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry) gives the titles of several Welsh books printed by Cotton and Eddowes, Joshua Eddowes, and afterwards by J. and W. Eddowes. They appear to have printed some very important works in their time, e.g. Lloffion Prydyddiaeth … Mr. Rees Prichard, 1766, Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg, 1768, as well as many almanacs by Gwilym Howell. J. Eddowes's wife, whom he married on 13 September 1753, was Lydia, daughter of William Phillips.

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• W. Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography (Llanidloes 1869)
• J. H. Davies, A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads printed in the 18th century (London 1908-11)
• Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales to 1810, and of successive and related printers to 1923 (Cardiff 1925)
• Llewelyn C. Lloyd, 'The Book-Trade in Shropshire,' in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1935, 1936

Additional Links

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• Wikidata: Q20733743

Published date: 1959

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