"Thomas McLean (publisher/printer; British; Male; 1788 - 1875)
Also known as: McLean, Thomas; McLean & Co
Address: 26 Haymarket, London (1820s-1860s) 70 St. Martins Lane, London (lithographic printing ...
workshop, 1840s-50s)
Biography: Print publisher, of a wide range of genres. Prints published in 1822 are lettered ’Repository of Wit & Humour’, 26 Haymarket, London; but according to Dorothy George, all prints dated before 1824 are reissues of 1824 or later. In the 1840s-50s also ran a lithographic printing workshop at 70 St Martin’s Lane; this sometimes described as McLean & Co. Note also the publisher Thomas M McLean, working at 7 Haymarket from 1866, perhaps the same firm.
Some of his prints bear a circular blindstamp and lettered ’Thos.McLean’ (recto).
Part 22 of Tallis’s London Street Views 1838-40 shows T. McLean Printseller & Publisher at 26 Haymarket, on the eastern side just north of Panton Street. The business was taken over by the son, Thomas Miller McLean (q.v.), probably with an overlap, 1865-75.
Bibliography: List of "Political Caricatures recently published by Thomas McLean" bound into the end of his 1830 description of the work of Gillray (P&D D.7.8)" - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=115215, 11.08.2018