A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow.

Date:
1910
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Credit: A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lO ARCHER—ARNOLD. ARCHER (FRANCIS), draper and stationer, 1600-16. Originally a member of the Drapers’ Company. Transferred to the Stationers on June 3rd, 1600 [Arber, ii. 725]. He kept as his apprentice William Fisher who was indentured to Thomas Gubbin, and Archer paid 2s. 6d. as a fine to the Company when he made Fisher free in 1604 [Arber, ii. 279]. In April, 1616, George Potter, stationer, assigned over to him his copyright in Philip de Mornay’s Triieness of Christian Religion [Arber, iii. 586], but in the same year Archer parted with it to George Purslowe. Nothing more is known about him. ARCHER (humfrey), bookseller and bookbinder in Oxford, 1577-88. Admitted a bookseller on April 24th, 1577 [Clark, Register^ ii. i. 321]. Administration of his effects was granted on February 13th, 158^ [Gibson, Oxford Wills^ pp. 16, 17]. ARCHER (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1603-34 ; (i) The little shop by the Royal Exchange ; (2) The long shop under St. Mildred’s Church, 1604 [Plazlitt, H. 417] ; (3) In Pope’s Head Palace, near the Royal Exchange, 1607 ; (4) Over against the sign of the Llorse-shoe, in Pope’s Head Alley, 1625. Apprentice to Cuthbert Burby, who made him free of the Company on January 15th, 1603, and at the same time paid a fine of ten shillings for having kept him unpresented during the whole of his apprenticeship. First book entry February 4th, 1603. Dealer in plays, jest-books and other popular literature. In 1622 he was associated with Nicholas Bourne. On February loth, 163^, he assigned certain copies to Hugh Perry, after which nothing further is known of him. ARDELEY, YardleyfR.) ARISONE (ANDREW), printer in Edinburgh, 1600. He was witness at the baptism in Edinburgh of Margaret, daughter of Patrick Johnstoun, book- binder, on August 17th, 1600. Possibly the same as Andro Aysoun. [Aldis, Scottish Books^ 108; Scottish Antir/uary, v. 90.] ARNOLD (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1569-81; The North Door of St. Paul’s Church. Admitted a freeman of the Company of Stationers on February 3rd, 1568. First entry in the Registers 1568-9 [Arber, i. 387]. He chiefly published ballad literature. He was fined for keeping open his shop on St. Andrew’s day. The last heard of him is in 1581, when he transferred a book to J. Charlewood [Arber, ii. 387].