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

by Henry Robert Plomer

COWPER (THOMAS), (?) bookseller in London, 1638–41. Only known from documents in the State Papers, in which he declared that he had imported large numbers of foreign bibles, prayer books and psalters, which were seized by the Stationers' Company and not returned to him. [Domestic State Papers, vol. 478 (54).] He may be identical with the Thomas Cooper, q.v., described in 1665 as a journeyman bookseller to Richard Royston, whose death is recorded in Smyth's Obituary, p. 67.