Clouter and Storer

[roly]

Trying to assemble lives of two printers in Bristol - Samuel Clouter and Thomas Stevens Storer.  I do have some information.  Clouter, for instance, is listed in Holden's 1811 Street Directory, working out of Castle Street; and was still working there at around 1815.  There may have been a son - John...Storer was working out of Narrow Wine Street between 1803 and 1809.  Both were issuing broadside ballad material - my principal interest.  There is a T. Storer in Temple Street at around 1826 (and on) but I don't think that this is my man.

It could well have been that ballad-printing was but a small element in business.  It's clear that many printers were also vendors of patent medicines, assurance agents, stationers, booksellers and, sometimes, owners of circulating libraries.

I'd appreciate any information and clues to sources.

roly