this continued to be the University Printing Office till about 1827, when the Pitt Press was commenced. It stood on the north side of Silver Street, on a portion of the site now occupied by the new Master's Lodge of St. Catherine's College. [Bowes, Biographical Notes on the University Printers, pp. 307, 308.] John Field died in 1668.
FIELDING (JACOB), (?) bookseller in London, 1652. His name is found on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled A terrible and bloudy fight at Sea between the English and the Dutch. 1652. This and its publisher are referred to in a paragraph in Mercurius Democritus for the week ending July 21st, 1652. He may have been a relative of William Fielding.
FIELDING (WILLIAM), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. His name occurs in the imprint to several political pamphlets in 1642. His address has not been found.
FIRBY (THOMAS), bookseller in London; near Grays Inn-Gate in Holbourn, 1657. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled First Fruits and Tenths, 1657.
FISHER (), barber & bookseller; Old Bailey. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 29, has the following entry:—"July 30, 1650. Mr. Fisher, barber and bookseller in Old Baily, died." In the same year the following imprint occurs on a pamphlet by A. Speed, Privately Printed and sold Privatly at Mr. Fisher's house in King street. [B.M. E. 599 (1).]
FISHER (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Posterne Gate neer the Tower, 1657-63. Dealer in nautical books. In partnership for some time with William Lugger or Lugard, q.v. Fisher was also the publisher of Edward Cocker's Art's Glory, or the Penman's Treasury, 1659.
FLESHER, see Fletcher.
FLETCHER (HENRY), bookseller in London; Three Gilt Cups in Paul's Church Yard near the West End, 1656-61. Publisher of several of Sir John Harrington's works and miscellaneous literature.
FLETCHER (JAMES), printer in London; Little Britain, 1652-67. Son of Miles Fletcher. He married a daughter of Cornelius Bee the bookseller. In 1664 he, with his father, was proceeded against for illegally printing law
