John Bagford was a bookseller based in Holborn and dealt with some of the preeminent collectors of his day including Sloane, Samuel Pepys, Humfrey Wanley, and Thomas Hearne. He contributed to several works of scholarship and published an essay on the history of printing in the Philosophical Transactions
Reference:
Theodor Harmsen, Bagford, John (1650/511716), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1030, accessed 9 July 2013].
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