Henry Lemoine, hack-writer and publisher of chapbooks, pamphlets, 1756-1812. Married Gothic chapbook publisher Ann Swires in 1786. Later an itinerant bookseller with a sack of books over his shoulder. Eccentric Bookseller & Author. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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