A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Bowman (Francis)
BOWMAN (FRANCIS), bookseller and printer (?) in Oxford and London, 1634-47. Published books in Oxford between 1634 and 1640. He is believed to have left Oxford about the year 1641. Several books are found printed in London in 1647 by F. B. These initials are found in G. Pretis' Oranta the Cyprian Virgin; Thomas Stanley's Poems and Translations, and also in Sir Robert Stapylton's Musaeus or the loves of Hero and Leander. The copyright of this last work belonged in the first place to Henry Hall, printer at Oxford, and was transferred by him on March 4th, 16467, to Humphrey Moseley. There is no other printer or bookseller in London at that date to whose name the initials apply, and the probability is that the printer of these books was Francis Bowman. [F. Madan, Early Oxford Press, pp. 278, 306, 313.]