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

by Henry Robert Plomer

DRING (PETER), bookseller in London, (1) The Sun in the Poultry, next door to the Rose Tavern, 1660-66; (2) Old Jewry, 1666. Amongst his publications was George Alsop's Character of the Province of Maryland, 1666, described by Sabin [Vol. i. 118] as one of the rarest of Americana. It contains on the last two leaves a list of 13 books printed for and sold by him. These included a romance called Eliana "by an English hand," one music book, two books on cookery, a jest book, and a commentary on Chaucer. On May 8th, 1666, he became surety for Thomas Johnson, printer, q.v. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 155, 70.]