12 18th century publishers (people)

Anna Magdalena Godiche née Høpfner was a Danish book printer and publisher. She managed the biggest printing company in contemporary Denmark.

Edmund March Blunt was an American navigator, author, and publisher of nautical magazines. He established a nautical book and chart publishing firm that became the largest publishing firm in early 19th century. In 1796, he published American Coastal Pilot, which described every port of the United States. Blunt created a map in 1796 of what is now the Federated States of Micronesia.

Isaac Collins was a printer, publisher, bookseller and merchant of the early American period. He published the New Jersey Gazette and New Jersey Almanac. He is noted for his 1791 bible, the first family bible published in America.

Marianne Ehrmann was one of the first women novelists, publicists and journalists in the German-speaking countries.

George William Blunt was a pioneer publisher of nautical charts and books for the company, E & G. W. Blunt. He was Secretary of the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the New York harbor from 1845-1877). For over 40 years he served as first assistant in the United States Coast Survey and made surveys of the New York harbor and the Bahama banks. He was instrumental in gaining reforms in the United States Lighthouse Service. His firm published many editions of Bowditch's Navigator and Blunt's American Coast Pilot.

Hannah Humphrey was a leading London print seller of the 18th century, significant in particular for being the publisher of much of James Gillray's output.

William Hunter was a colonial American newspaper publisher, book publisher, and printer for the colony of Virginia.

Thomas Osborne was an English publisher and bookseller noted for his association with author Samuel Johnson and his purchase of the library of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford.

James Parker was a prominent colonial American printer and publisher.

William Parks (1699–1750) was a printer and journalist in England and Colonial America.

Adolf Martin Schlesinger was a German music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century.

Johann Heinrich Zedler was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon , the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century.