Lahee, James
James Lahee (publisher/printer; British; Male; 1801apprentice - 1852 or later) Also known as Lahee, James; Lahee & Co; Lahee Address 30 Castle Street, near Titchfield St, Oxford St (in 1811) (same as) Castle Street, Oxford Market (off Great Portland Street), London Biography Copperplate printer of high reputation. See Dibdin's 'Reminscences', 1836, II 619n, 'He is among the most punctual men of business with whom I am acquainted; and in the mezzotint department of art the acknowledged facile princeps'. For his career, beginning as an apprentice of Ebsworth, see A.W.Tuer's Bartolozzi, 1885. His superb collection of proofs of Turner's 'Liber Studiorum' was sold to Thomas Lupton in 1852 for £200. Printed for Turner (the Liber Studiorum), Constable (English Landscape Scenery) and Blake (the Job series). Bibliography Jacob Simon, database of artists' suppliers (NPG website) John Gage, 'Correspondence of Turner', 1980, letter 39.
