of 10 Finsbury Street, London
The Columbian Press was invented by George Clymer of Philadelphia who moved to London in 1817 and manufactured in 1 Finsbury street
1830 Clymer took Samuel Dixon as a partner in the business and moved to 10 Finsbury Street and the business traded as Clymer, Dixon and Co.
1831 Advertisement. 'CLYMER'S Patent PRINTING PRESS, manufactured by CLYMER & DIXON, No. 10, Finsbury Street, Finsbury Square, London. The celebrity which these PRESSES have obtained by their constint use for nearly twelve years, in the Royal Printing Offices of the University of Oxford and the Royal Printing Offices of the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Holland; in America; in the East Indies, and more than four hundred of the most respectable Printing Offices in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and in short, and every important town in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Continent, without a single failure in any one instance, renders eulogy on their superiority over any and every similar invention, guite unnecessary: suffice it therefore to to those who have not yet made a trial them....'[1]
1845 Dixon took in partners in the business
1947 Colombian printing press. Exhibit at Bradford Industrial Museum
1849 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Dixon and Thomas Wrigley Wiley, as Columbian Printing Press Manufacturers, and carried on at No. 10, Finsbury-street, Finsbury-square, in the parish of St. Luke's, in the county of Middlesex, under the firm of Clymer, Dixon, and Company, was this day dissolved by mutual consent; and that all debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Samuel Dixon...'[2]
1851 Business taken over by William Carpenter
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette - Saturday 08 October 1831
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:12 June 1849 Issue:20988 Page:1928