Trader Details

Details for: OGILBY, John

Name: OGILBY, John
County: London
Town: City
Address(es): In White Fryers, below the Green Dragon Tavern in Fleet St (1670-6)
Book Trades: Publisher
Non-Book Trade: Land and buildings (land surveyor)
Trading Dates: 1625 ? - 1676
Biographical Dates: 1600 (date of birth) - 1676 (date of death)
Notes: Geographer, scholar. Possibly died in 1675. Merchant Taylors' Co. Master of Revels (IE). King's Cosmographer
Sources:
  • Tyacke, Sarah, London Map-sellers 1660-1720 (Tring, 1978)
  • Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 1908-9)
  • 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)


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