Trader Details

Details for: OKES, Nicholas

Name: OKES, Nicholas
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Nr Holborn Bdge. At the Hand nr Holborn Bdge. Foster La / In the Wellyard in Lit St Bartholomew's (1630s)
Book Trades: Printer, Printer (pamphlet)
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1603 (date of freedom) - 1639
Biographical Dates: 1596 (date of apprenticeship) - 1645 (date of death)
Notes: Also Derwen; de Quercubus. Apprenticed to William King. Father of John Okes. Married widow of C Purset. Partner of John Norton.
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
  • Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, quarterly periodical, published by OUP.
  • Extra source information - 6th series vol.8 no.1
  • Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, quarterly periodical, published by OUP.
  • Extra source information - 1988 vol.x no.4 6th series


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