The Life of Thomas Gent
Printer, of York. 1693-1778
Welcome to this Web site. It includes the text of the 1832 edition of Thomas Gent's autobiography.
The site now
includes the complete, unexpurgated text of the original
manuscript, available for the very first time.
Introduction
The reasons for this
website, and future plans.
Notes
Notes on the
text
Notes on Thomas Gent's ancestry
Thomas Gent's publications
About Frank Gent, creator of this site.
Preface
The original preface
of 1832 by the Rev. Joseph Hunter.
Text-only
version (230k)
New 2000! For the first time ever, the complete,
unexpurgated version of Thomas Gent's Autobiography
Part
One
1710-1715
Part Two
1715-1718
Part Three
1718-1724
Part Four
1724-1744
'A
Memoir of the York Press' by Robert Davies,
1868. A full account of Gent's ;ife and work, and a detailed
bibliography of his entire known output.
In his printshop at Coffee Yard, York; a woodcut colophon.
In his study; rare frontispiece in my copy of Thomas Gent's 'History of Hull'.
Mezzotint by Valentine Green, from the oil portrait by Nathaniel Drake, published 21st July, 1771.
Engraving of Thomas Gent by P. Rothwell, published 1812 by William Richardson.
Mezzotint by Augustus Fox, 1832; frontispiece to the Autobiography.
There is also a recently discovered miniature of Thomas Gent in America.
Updated 31st August, 2000