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

by Henry Robert Plomer

FEATHERSTONE (HENRY), bookseller in London; St. Anne's Blackfriars, 1609-47. Son of Cuthbert Fetherston. Apprenticed to Bonham Norton, September 29th, 1598, for nine years. [Arber, ii. 230.] Warden of the Company of Stationers in 1635 and 1639. Master of the Company in 1641. He was the publisher of Purchas his Pilgrimage, 1612. Seems to have given up publishing in 1627. He died March 18th, 1646/7. [Smyth's Obituary, p. 23.] George Thomason, q.v., was one of the executors to his will. [P.C.C. 69, Essex.]