Mary Cooper

Standard Name: Cooper, Mary

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The volume bore the imprint of the well-known mercuryMary Cooper ; the moving spirit behind it was Horace Walpole .
Textual Production Mary Collyer
This may well have been written out of financial need.
Immel, Andrea. “A Christmass-Box. Mary Homebred and Mary Collyer: Connecting the Dots”. Childrens Books History Society Newsletter, No. 94, Dec. 2009, pp. 1-4.
3-4
The copy surviving at UCLA spent more than two centuries in the Ludford Box, a family collection of children's books from several eighteenth-century...
Textual Production Anna Williams
La Bléterie's Vie de l'empereur Julien had appeared in 1735. Williams published through the mercuryMary Cooper , with a title-page claiming that her translation was improved with coins, notes and a genealogical table.
qtd. in
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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1742: The mercury or trade publisher Mary Cooper...

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1742

The mercury or trade publisher Mary Cooper published The Child's New Play-Thing, an alphabet book with spelling games, which has a claim to the title of first modern children's book.
O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
24
, 2000, pp. 18-44.
38n4

9 February 1743: Leading trade publisher Thomas Cooper died,...

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9 February 1743

Leading trade publisherThomas Cooper died, after which his business was taken over by his widow, Mary Cooper .
Treadwell, Michael. “London Trade Publishers 1675-1750”. The Library, Vol.
6th ser. 4
, 1982, pp. 99-134.
111, 115, 123

Autumn 1745: After the battle of Prestonpans , the mercury...

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Autumn 1745

After the battle of Prestonpans, the mercuryMary Cooper published The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g's Midnight Club, a satire centred on sexuality.
The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g’s Midnight Club. Printed for M. Cooper, 1746.
5, 12

By June 1753: There was published anonymously Hypatia;...

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By June 1753

There was published anonymously Hypatia ; or, the history of a most beautiful, most virtuous, most learned, and every way accomplished lady.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8: 510

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