George Conyers: a How-to Book Specialist in Early Modern London

Much of my research on our ‘how-to’ project so far has concerned one person: the London bookseller George Conyers. Active between around 1682 and his death in 1740, through his long career Conyers occupied a rare position in the early modern English booktrade which makes him especially worthy of consideration for the student of how-to. He was one of the very few publishers who might legitimately be dubbed a how-to specialist. A c.1715 impression of John White’s Hocus Pocus, sold from Conyers...