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APPENDIX The Business Addresses of John Miller
What follows is based on a variety of sources, including letters to and from Miller, advertisements in catalogues and trade periodicals, and a wide range of London street and trade directories. Occasionally complicating the task of reconstruction was the existence of more than one J. Miller among the ranks of the London book trade. Nor is it possible to be very precise as to when, within a given year, Miller moved from one premises to another. Fluctuations in the trade and in his personal fortune prompted many of the moves prior to 1830, when he became identified as the agent for American books on Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
According to a letter from Miller to Carey of 12 May 1821, Miller had already been in business for seventeen years. That would have placed the opening of his shop in London about the year 1804. However, we cannot locate a reasonably firm address for him until 1811, when he is listed at 6 Bridge Road, Lambeth. Between about 1813 and 1819 he was listed at 25 Bow Street, and for some portion of 1819-20 he could be found at 10-11 Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly. Briefly (1820-21) he operated from either 14 or 41 Lisle Street near Leicester Square, depending upon which street directory one consults. He then settled for a time (1821-23) at 69 Fleet Street.
During the years 1824-27 he occupied premises at 5 New Bridge Street, Black-friars. It was during these years that street directories began to list him as a specialist in American publications. Then follows a series of other changes, no doubt reflecting the commercial instability of the late 1820's. He was definitely at 40 Pall Mall by April 1827 according to one letterhead, and at 23 St. James Street in April 1830 according to one of his printed catalogues. But it was not until sometime in 1831-32 that he finally settled at 13 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, remaining at essentially the same location until the conclusion of his business career in 1866. The only change from about 1840 onwards was a move from 13 to 26 Henrietta Street.
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