Details for: MOSELEY, Humphrey

Name: MOSELEY, Humphrey County: London Town: London Address(es): At the Ball in St Paul's Chyd. Ball & White Lion in St Paul's Chyd. Prince's Arms in St Paul's Chyd Book Trades: Bookseller Non-Book Trade: Not known Trading Dates: 1620 (date of apprenticeship) - 1661 Biographical Dates: 1620 (date of apprenticeship) - 1661 (date of death) Notes: Possibly son of Samuel Moseley, ST. Apprenticed to MATTHEW LOWNES 27.3.1620. Part Nicholas Fussell (1627-34). elected warden of the Stationers' Company 1659. Master to JOHN LANGFORD & HENRY PENTON. Apparently succeeded by widow ANNE MOSELEY. Elected warden of stationers company 1645. Humphrey Robinson was partner in 1647. Sources: Plomer, Henry R., A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907) 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 Kewes, Pauline, ''Give me the Sociable Pocket-Books...': Humphrey Moseley's Serial Publication of Octavo Play Collections', in Publishing History 28 (1995), pp6-21 Book History ed. E.Greenspan and J.Rose. Pennsylvania State University Press. Extra source information - vol.4 p.8

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