Abstract
Thomas Tegg (1776–1845) was born in Wimbledon in Surrey. Orphaned at five, he was sent to a boarding school and later apprenticed to Alexander Meggett, a bookseller in Dalkeith, Scotland. Abused by the bookseller, he ran away and briefly made a living selling chapbooks at Berwick. He eventually obtained employment at the Sheffield Register , a local newspaper. In 1796 he traveled to London, briefly working at William Lane's Minerva Press in Leadenhall. He eventually secured a position at John and Arthur Arch's bookshop, where he learned the book trade.
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