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

by Henry Robert Plomer

SHIRLEY, or SHERLEY (JOHN), bookseller in London; Golden Pelican in Little Britain, 1644-66. His name is found on the following among other books: W. Lilly's Prophecy of the White King, 1644, and Saml. Parker's Tentamina Physico-Theologica, 1665. [Ames Collection, 3267.] Smyth in his Obituary (p. 71), has this record, January 23rd, 166 5/6, "Mr. John Shirley, bookseller in Little Britain, hora 10 sub nocte, died."