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BiographyCluer Dicey. (Ca. 1715-1775) Son of William Dicey (1690-1756) and Mary Atkins (d. 1748). Married (1738) to Maria Nutshawe. Successful Bookseller and producer (with his father and later with Richard Marshall) of cheap print, i.e. a printer of low-cost litterature (chapbooks), with offices at Bow and Aldermary church-yards in London. The company were the first printers of the nursery rhyme Simple Simon (1764), which is known and popular even today. He died at Claybrooke Hall in Claybrooke Parva, Leicestershire, which he had bought in 1765. He was inherited by his only surviving son, Thomas Dicey (1742-1807). Life with James Boswell:
Feeling somewhat nostalgic, on June 10, 1763 Boswell went to his shop in Bow Church-yard and bought "two dozen of the [children's] story-books and had them bound up with this title, Curious Productions." The volume "made" by Boswell, Curious Productions exists today at the Harvard College Library's Child Memorial Collection of chap books, with an inscription by Boswell. External links:
Some biographical info from Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, which is available online at Abebooks
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