A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Higgins (Christopher)
HIGGINS (CHRISTOPHER), printer at Leith, 1652-54 (?), and Edinburgh; in Harts-Qose over against the Trone-Church, 1655-60. Succeeded Evan Tyler, and printed for the Government According to Watson, "Tyler made over his part of the forfeited gift [of King's printer] to some stationers at London, who sent down upon us Christopher Higgins and some English servants with him." This was about 1652, and the tracts printed at Leith in 1652-4 were probably printed by Higgins, but his name does not appear till 1655, when he was printing at Edinburgh. Though Higgins printed in his own name, Watson's statement is probably correct, and he was succeeded by a Society of Stationers in 1660, in which year he seems to have either died or retired. [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 114.]