Philip Luckombe

Philip Luckombe (baptised 1730 – died 1803) was an English printer and author.

Life

He was born at Exeter, the son of John Luckombe, a tailor. He worked as a printer there, and then moved to London, where he was employed as a writer.[1][2]

The editor of dictionaries and encyclopædias, Luckombe also wrote books on printing, and made a study of conchology. His collection of shells was considerable, and his learning brought him the acquaintance of Thomas Percy.[1]

Luckombe died in September 1803.[1]

Works

Luckombe's main works are:[1]

A Tour through Ireland in Several Entertaining Letters, 1748, with William Rufus Chetwood[2]

A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing, 1770.

The History and Art of Printing, 2 parts, 1771.

A Tour through Ireland, 1780. This work depended on plagiarism, for instance from Richard Twiss.[2] Other works it draws on were the early Tour with Chetwood, the Hibernia Curiosa (1769) of John Bush of Tunbridge Wells, and Thomas Campbell's Philosophical Survey (1777).[3]

The Traveller's Companion, or a New Itinerary of England and Wales, 1789.

England's Gazetteer, 3 vols. 1790.

The Tablet of Memory, 8th edit. 1792.

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