John Evans (publisher)

John Evans was baptised 18 November 1753 in the parish church of St Giles without Cripplegate, London, the second son of Thomas.

In 1783 the partners employed Evans to manage their wholesale bookshop at 42 Long Lane, West Smithfield on their behalf.

[9] In March 1791, Evans received a proposal to become the London agent for a Dr. Waite in the sale of his “Worm Medicine.” At this time Marshall raised no objection to his employee doing so.

However, following the death of Dr. Waite a year later, Evans and another agent, William Howard of Reading, jointly purchased the rights to manufacture and sell the medicine.

[11] At first Evans refused to move and occupied half of the shop and set up a press where he printed copies of several of Marshall's publication.

Marshall also retaliated by marketing his own counterfeit version of Dr Waite's Worm medicine which was advertised in the London press.

[15] John Marshall gave up the lease of 42 Long Lane at Easter 1796 in order to concentrate on publishing Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts, to which he had been appointed the sole printer in February 1796.