Samuel Bagster the Elder
(1772-1851), PublisherRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 1 portrait
Bagster began his bookselling and publishing business on the Strand in London when he was twenty-two. He specialised in producing polyglot bibles, which interested Linnell who learned Hebrew and Greek in order to read original biblical texts.
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