Basil Montagu Pickering

Son of William Pickering, publisher and bookseller (1796-1854)

Biography:

Pickering's son, Basil Montagu Pickering (1835–1878), publisher and bookseller, was born on 18 June 1835, entered the book trade as an assistant to James Toovey, and set up in business in 1858 at 196 Piccadilly, London. He specialized in rare books, first editions of nineteenth-century poets and copies of his father's publications, and published editions of Blake, Swinburne, J. H. Frere, works by Cardinal Newman, and a variorum edition of Coleridge. He died on 8 February 1878 at 196 Piccadilly, his wife and children having predeceased him in 1876.

Bernard Warrington, ‘Pickering, William (1796–1854)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,

Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2055/view/article/22213, accessed 5 Oct 2015]