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Garrat Noel
folders, leather paper cases, blank books for accounts of
all sorts, alphabets, copy books, receipt books, 9 leaved
carts of the Channel and West Indies. Likewise a fresh as-
sortment of the famous tooth powder, Stoughton’s Bit-
ters, lotion water, smelling bottles,[11] viper drops,
Turlington and West’s pectoral elixer, lavender drops,
and lavender water."[12][13][14][15][16] In 1753 he carried
in his shop "curious bustos, fit furniture for gentlmen’s
houses, in plaister of paris, plain, polished and burnished
in gold, with black pedestals, all very fine drapery, viz.
Shakespear and Milton, Homer and Virgil, Horace and
Tully, Cicero and Plato, Caesar and Seneca, Prior and Con-
grave, Addison and Pope, Lock and Newton, Dryden and
Gay, Venus and Apollo, Ovid and Julia. Likewise a parcel
of pictures in the newest and genteelest taste."[17]
Among the titles offered for sale by Noel in 1755:[18]
• Behn’s Plays • Hartley’s • Independent
• Bowen’s New Observations Whig
Atlas on Man • Alain-René
• Bysshe’s Art • Edward Lesage’s The
of Poetry[19] Hatton’s Batchelor of
• Francis Mathematical Salamanca
Coventry’s Manual • Noël-Antoine
The History of • Eliza Pluche’s
a Lap Dog, Haywood’s History of the
Pompey the Female Heavens
Little Spectator • Potter’s
• Echard’s • Heylen’s Help Antiquities of
Gazetteer to English Greece[22]
• Fielding’s History • The Tatler
Noel’s catalog, 1755 (Boston Public Library) Voyage to • Hibernicus’s • Wishart’s
Lisbon Letters Commentaries
Garrat Noel (1706-1776) was a bookseller and educa- • The Gardner’s • The Hive: a on the late
tor in New York, New York, in the 18th century.[1][2] He Dictionary Collection of War in Italy
emigrated from Cadiz in 1750.[3] In 1751 he worked as a • Harrison’s Choice New • The World in
"teacher of the Spanish tongue ... also ... reading, writ- House- Songs[21] Miniature[23]
ing, arithmetick and merchants accompts."[4][5] By 1752 keepers • Hughes’ • The Young
he kept a shop on Broad Street,[6] and in 1753 on Dock Pocket Natural Lady Conducted
Companion [20] History of
Street.[7] From his shop Noel also operated a circulating
library of "several thousand volumes of choice books, in Barbados
history, divinity, travels, voyages, novels, &c."[8][9][10] • Hutcheson’s
In addition to books and periodicals Noel sold station- Xenophon
ary and other sundries: "Playing cards by the dozen or According to contemporary anecdotes, a customer once
single pack. Best ink powder and ink. Paper of all sorts, travelled to Noel’s bookshop from "some distance up
by the ream or quire, penknives, pencils, quils, pens, wax, Hudson River" especially to purchase "Spanish bulls" ad-
and seals, ink-pots and pewter-stands, and boxes, paste- vertised by Noel in the newspapers. The "old Scotchman"
board files with laces, brass-wire files, blanks of all sorts, mistook the documents "for cattle."[24]
scales and dividers, and pocket compasses, pounce and Noel died in 1776 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey.[25]
pounce-boxes, memorandum books, fountain pens, ivory
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References [17]
[18]
New York Mercury, Dec. 31, 1753
Catalogue. 1755
"Circulating libraries are very justly esteemed of great [19] WorldCat Edward Bysshe
service to the publick, whereby persons may improve [20] WorldCat Sarah Harrison
as well as entertain their minds, at a small expence. ... [21] An example of this title (possibly resembling the
Sundry gentlemen have for a long time, been desirous of version sold by Noel) can be found here (London,
seeing such a thing established in this city, and ... given 1727)
their approbation by subscribing to the one now on foot." [22] Park. List of architectural books available in
Advertisement for G. Noel, New York Gazette, 1763[26] America before the Revolution. Journal of the
[1] WorldCat. Garrat Noel Society of Architectural Historians, v.20, no.3, Oct.
[2] His name is sometimes spelled "Garret Noel" or 1961
"Garrett Noel." [23] WorldCat John Fransham
[3] "Garrett Noel, the first New York bookseller." [24] Original anecdote. Pennsylvania Packet, Nov. 1,
Magazine of American history v.16, no.1, July 1886 1790
[4] New York Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy, [25] New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Sept. 28,
June 10, 1751 1776; quoted in: New Jersey Historical Society.
[5] J.R. Spell. Spanish teaching in the United States. Documents relating to the Revolutionary history of
Hispania, v.10, no.3, May 1927 the State of New Jersey, v.1. Trenton, NJ: J.L.
[6] New York Mercury, Nov. 13, 1752 Murphy publishing co., printers, 1901
[7] New York Mercury, Dec. 31, 1753 [26] New York Gazette, September 12, 1763
[8] "To those who delight in reading..." New York
Gazette, Aug. 29, 1763
[9] "Conditions for subscribing to Noel’s Circulating
Further reading
Library ..." cf. New York Gazette, Sept. 12, 1763 • David Kaser (1980), "Garrat Noel of New York", A
[10] "To promote useful knowledge, and for the Book for a Sixpence: the Circulating Library in America,
entertainment of those who are disposed to spend Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu, ISBN 0910230145
their winter evenings agreeably; a circulating Persondata
library, upon a very extensive plan, will be opened
Name Noel, Garrat
... by Garrat Noel at his book store;" cf. New York
Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Sept. 5, 1768 Alternative names
[11] Smelling-bottle: "phial or small bottle for Short description
containing smelling-salts or perfume ready for Date of birth 1706
use;" cf. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1989
Place of birth
[12] A Catalogue of Books in History, Divinity, Law, Arts
and Sciences, and the Several Parts of Polite Date of death 1776
Literature; to be Sold by Garrat Noel, Bookseller in Place of death
Dock-Street. New-York: Printed by H. Gaine, in
Queen-Street, between the Fly and Meal-Markets,
1755
[13] Advertisement: "The only true preservative for the
teeth and gums, just imported in the
Nebuchadnezer, from London, and to be sold by
Garrat Noel, school-master ...;" cf. New York
Gazette, Aug. 17, 1752
[14] "To be sold by Garret Noel ... the famous Eau de
Luce;" cf. New York Mercury, May 22, 1758
[15] "Said Noel has likewise to sell, the very best of
Durham Flour of Mustard, and a fresh parcel of
very fine snuff, commonly called Black Guard." cf.
New York Gazette, Aug. 29, 1763
[16] Noel also sold wallpaper: "exceeding cheap, a
parcel of handsome patterns of flowered paper for
hangings" cf. Advertisement in New York Gazette,
Nov. 30, 1767
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