A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Pitt (Moses)

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PITT (MOSES), bookseller in London, (1) White Hart, Little Britain; (2) Angel, St. Paul's Churchyard, over against the little North door. 1666-81. Mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, as a bookseller in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy 252/32.] Published in 1667 a Short Account of the life and death of Pope Alexander VII. He became one of the most important booksellers of the second half of the seventeeth century. (See Arber, Term Catalogues.)