James Payne

(1819 fl.)

LBT ID: JaPayne1819
SOURCES: BBTI Project, Birmingham (web); Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Folkestone, 1977)
London bookseller who supposedly drowned himself in the Paddington Canal; Payne and Mackinlay had published Hodgson's Juvenal. Ian Maxted reports that Payne died a prisoner in France.
REFERENCES TO James Payne: Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 17 September 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 13 October 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter X. 1811-12. Found 1: ¶ 5