| Name: |
SPEED, John |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
None |
| Book Trades: |
Map/chart maker, Cartographer, Printer |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1610 (before) - 1617 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1552 (date of birth) - 1629 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Patent to print the 'Genealogies of the Holy Scriptures' and the map of Canaan, to be inserted into every copy of the new translation of the Bible. |
| Sources: |
- Kingsley, D., Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900
- Frostick, R. The printed plans of Norwich 1558-1840 (Norwich, 2003)
- Hunt, Arnold, 'Book Trade Patents, 1603-1640', in The Book Trade and its customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997)
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