George Robinson (bookseller)

Robinson published The Lady's Magazine and a serial reference work, The New Annual Register, as well as fiction and non-fiction.

"[3] He was an assistant to John Rivington (1720–1792), a publisher in St Paul's Churchyard, and later worked for a Mr. Johnstone on Ludgate Hill.

In setting himself up in business, Robinson had the support of Thomas Longman, "who liberally, and unasked, offered him any sum, on credit, that might be wanted".

[6] On 26 November 1793, Robinson's company was fined for selling copies of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.

[2] A radical, in 1794 Robinson published Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, for which he paid her the generous sum of £500, equivalent to £58,735 in 2020, and later also bought her A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794.