| Name: |
MATHEWES, Augustine |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
In St Brides La in Fleet St at the Parsonage House. Cow La near Holborn Circus |
| Book Trades: |
Printer, Printer (journeyman) |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1608 (date of apprenticeship) - 1653 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1608 (date of apprenticeship) - 1653 |
| Notes: |
Bound to printer WILLIAM HALL march 1608. Part J White (1619); John Norton jr (1624-6). Restricted to one press (1623). Deprived of press (1637). Succeeded by Marmaduke Parsons. Welsh apprentices JOHN EDWARDS, bound for 7 years from 29.9.1624, and THOMAS WATKINS, bound 6 may 1629 for 8 years (both from Newtown, Montgomeryshire). |
| Sources: |
- Aldis, H.G. et al, A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books 1557-1640 (London, 1910)
- Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, 3 vols. (London 1986, 1976, 1991), esp. vol. 3
- Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990. (Winchester, 1997).
- Treadwell, Michael, 'Lists of Master Printers: The Size of the London Printing Trade, 1637-1723', in Aspects of Printing, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), 141-170.
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