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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    booksellers between 1600 and 1610. The only entry of an apprenticeship is that recorded on August 24th, 1592, when John Baylye, son of John Baylye of Whetstone, Middlesex, was apprenticed to Joseph Hunt, stationer of London, for eight years from that date [Arber, ii. 182]. This term would have expired in 1600, and we find two men of this name made free during that year. The earliest was on June 25th, when one John Baylie was admitted by translation from the Company of Drapers [Arber, ii. 726], while the other was presented by John Newberry on September ist [Arber, ii. 727]. There was also a John Bayly to whom John Wight, draper and bookseller, who died in the latter half of 1589, left a bequest of . unbound books to the value of forty shillings [Plomer, JVi7/s, p. 29]. Whether any of these men was identical with Joseph Hunt’s apprentice it is not possible to say. On September 8th, 1600, a John Baylie entered in the Registers Acolastus his after-witie^ a poem by Samuel Nicholson [Arber, iii. 172], the imprint to which ran “At London. Imprinted for John Baylie, and are to be sold at his Shop, neere the little North-doore of Paules Church. 1600.” Between 1602 and perhaps 1610 he had a second shop “ at the doore of the office of the Six Clerks in Chancery Lane,” from which in 1602 he issued an edition of (?) Southwell’s Passion of a Dis- contented A/i?id, while in 1603 Thomas Creed printed for him a laudatory poem on the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the accession of James I, entitled Elizaies Afemoriall, King lames his arrival!^ and Romes Downefall^ which was issued from St. Paul’s Churchyard. John Bailey was also the publisher of Francis Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody^ 1602, but in 1603 he transferred his rights in this to Roger Jackson [Arber, iii. 242]. About this time there is also an entry in the Registers by “John Bayley ye younger” [Arber, iii. 206]. In 1610 a John Baily is found associated with William Barley in the publication of pamphlets relating to public affairs in France, The Apologie of George Brisset [B.M. 3901. e. 7], and The Terrible . . . death of Francis Ravilliack [B.M. C. 33. g. 25], but in neither instance is the publisher’s address given. BAILEY, BAYLEY or BAILY (tiiomas), see Plomer, Dictionary. BAILY, see Bailey. BAKER (GEORGE), bookseller in London, 1627-31; Near Charing Cross, at the sign of the White Lion. Took up his freedom June 8th, 1627 [Arber,