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

by Henry Robert Plomer

BAKER (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Peacock in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1659–66; (2) Peacock in Little Britain, 1667–70; (3) Three Pigeons, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1670–84. The Register of Apprenticeships at Stationers' Hall records a John Baker, son of Michael Baker, stationer, as bound to George Thomason on September 6th, 1647. He was out of his time in 1655. In 1659, in partnership with Edward Brewster, he published a Greek edition of Hesiod for the use of schools, which was printed for them by D. Maxwell. The title-page, printed in red and black, is preserved in the Ames Collection of title-pages in the British Museum, No. 2867.