Details for: SPARKE, Michael I

Name: SPARKE, Michael I
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Blue Bible in Green Arbour Ct, Old Bailey
Book Trades: Bookseller
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1610 (date of freedom) - 1653
Biographical Dates: 1610 (before) - 1653 (date of death)
Notes: Also Sparkes; Wreichionen. Son of Richard Sparke, Eynsham, husbandman. Apprenticed to Simon Pauley. LivSC 1626. Part Samuel Cartwright 1635; son Michael Sparke II 1638-45 [Morgan `Bodl Lib Rec' 15 (1996) 357]
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