Tregear, Gabriel Shear (Gabriel Shire Tregear)
Gabriel Shear Tregear (1802 - February 21, 1841), also known as Gabriel Shire Tregear, was an English publisher of caricatures and satirical prints active in the early 19th century, a golden age for the genre. Little is known about his biography and training. Trager appears to have entered the publishing business by way of his wife, Ann McLean, who was the sister of the publisher and print seller Thomas McLean. From 1823, Treager began publishing (republishing earlier McLean's works) before setting up his own shop in 1826. He quickly homed in on satirical prints as a moneymaker, though also publishing sporting and theatrical prints. Unfortunately, some of his prints reinforced deeply racist stereotypes of the time, a common theme in the genre, and he is perhaps best known today for his notoriously racist collections 'Life in Philadelphia' (1833, based on an equally offensive American run of prints with the same title) and 'Tregear's Black Jokes' (1834). After his death, Tregear's wife Ann continued to operate the business with Thomas Crump Lewis as Tregear and Lewis, also selling musical instruments, but the firm went bankrupt in 1844.
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This is a rare 1832 C. J. Grant broadsheet criticizing the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), a major publisher of periodicals, reference works, maps, and atlases aimed at the masses. Deeming himself a spokesman for the working class, Grant's derision seems to be born out of a sense of the SDUK as phonies. (more details)