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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1685. Edmund Bollifant and John Jack- son were in partnership, and dwelt in Eliot's court, in the Little Old Bailey, they used a print of Abraham and Isaac walking, with this motto, devs promdebil, (Gen. xxii.) Their first book is dated 1585, in which year they printed an edition of Aetop't fables in tru ortoyraphy, viA grammer notz. Her-unto ar also cooined the Jiorte sentencez of the wyz Cato, imprinted with lykeform and order : both of which authorz ar translated out of Latin intoo English, by William Bulloker. lUmo. To which is added the following lines : —
Gae God the pralz Th*t teacheh al walz. When troth trieth Emior lUeth.
In the following year appeared from the press of Bollifant and Jackson, William BuUoker's pamphlet for grammer, \2mo. And Lerinus Leminus his herball of the bible. 8vo.
1585. Robert Robison, Robertson, or Ro- binson, dwelt in Fleet lane, and as appears from a book in 8vo. called An abridgment of the laws, in Fewter lane, near Holboum. In 1586, lie printed the following, on a half sheet : —
A proper nerve sonet, declaring the lamentation of Becktes, a market towne in Suffolke, which was in the great winde, vpon S. Anarewes eve last past, most pittifully burned with fire, to t/ie losse by estimation 20,0002. and vpwarde, and the num- ber of fourscore dwelling houses. To Wilson's tune. In 14 eight line verses. For Nicholas Colm of Norwich in St. Andrew's.
Robert Robinson continued in business iirom 1565 to 1597, and printed fifteen works.
1685. Thomas Lust printed the Treasury of Health, ^c. translated by Humphry Lloyd, 8vo.
1585. Walter Venoe lived in Fleet-lane, opposite the Maiden-head, where he printed a very curious work, called the Mathematical Jewel, 4-c. by John Blagrave, of Reading, gent, and well wilier to the mathematics, who nath cut all the prints, or pictures, of the whole work with his own hands. This book is printed in a neat roman type, contains 124 pages, and is dedicated to sir William Cecil, lord high trea- surer of England. In an edition of this book, in Ashmole's museum, is written concerning Blagrave, the wood cutter, as follows :
Here stands Mr. Gray master of this hoase. And his poor cat, playing with a mouse.
John Blagrave marryed this Grayes widdow, (she was a Hungerford.) This John wassymple, had yssue by this widdowe. 1. Anthony, who manyed Jane Borlass. 2. John, the author of this booke. 3. Alexander, the excellent chess player in England. Anthony had sir John Bla- grave, knight, who caused his teeth to be all aiawn out, and after had a sett of ivory teeth in agayne. — Ames.
1586. In the book of accounts of the church- wardens of Arundel, in the county of Sussex, and ^ocese of Canterbury, is the following entry : — Paid for lack of a bible, at Canterbury, \s. 3d.
1585. Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, chan- cellor of the university of Oxford, erected at his own expense a new printing press, for the use of the university. The first book printed at it, was one written and published by John Case, fellow
of St. John's college, with the following title :
Speculum Tnoralium qvaestionum in unitersatn ethicam Aristotelis, 1585, 4to. which he dedi- cated to the chancellor. This work was executed by Joseph Barnes, who had been appointed printer to the university, and who continued to practice the art until the year 1617.
1685, Juty29. King James VI. of Scotland, obtained an actof parliament on this day, against any books being imported into Scotland, contain- ing doctrine, and also that the sellers, and dis- persers of erroneous books, should be punished, and the books destroyed.
1685. The first publication on the subject of poetry, is found in a most rare volume, which contains tracts written by king James VI. of Scotland, entitled the Essays of a premise in the divene art ofpoesie.* printed at Edinburgh by- Thomas VautroUier, 1685, 4to. Cumprivilegio regalio. containing Q sheets.
In 1591, Robert Waldegrave, printed Hit Majesties (King James of Scotland) Poeticall Exercices at vacant houres.\ Edinburgh. 4to.
1585, Oct. 29. The /rs< of the annual exhibi- tions of the lord mayor of London, known to have been published, was written by George Peele,for the inauguration of sir Wolston Dixie, knight. The printed descriptions of these processions are usuafiy entitled triumphs, though they are more commonly called the London Pageants. All of them are scarce, and some of them are of such extreme rarity as to bear a price at the rate of two or three guineas a leaf.
1586. Jan. Died, Joay Walley an eminent printer of London, whose dwelling was in Foster- fane, at the sign of the Hartshorn. All that has hitherto been collected of this printer is, that be was oneof the original members of the stationers* company before they had their charter; and served renter, or collector of the quarterages, from 1564 to 1567, when he was chosen under- warden. He was upper warden in 1564, and again in 1569. He rented a chamber in the company's hall, for which he paid xiij.s. iiij.d. a year, in 1557; but in 1661, xx.s. In 1558, he was fined ij.s. viij.d. for keeping open shop, and selling books on a festival day. Again, in 1564, for keeping open shop on St. Luke's day, with 18 others, xvj.s. viii.d. On Jan. 28, 1582-3, he was fined 13s. 4d. for employing Jno. Charlewood, to print the Book of Presidents for him. He hao license for printing: viz. from July, 1657, to July, 1558, ' Welth and Helth, The Frere and the boye. Starts puer ad mensam. Youghte,
- King James VI. was born Jane 19, ls66, in the castle
of Edinburgh, and consequently he was only nineteen years of aye when he produced Uiis work.
t King James's Poetical Exercua, llrst edition, rare. Edinburgh ; printed by Waldegrave, no date, 4to. w«» sold at archdeacon Nares's sale, I8SI, for je3.
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