GRIFFIN (SARAH), printer in London; Old Bailey St. Sepulchre's parish, 1653–73. Widow of Edward Griffin II, q.v. Succeeded to the business on the death of her husband in 1652. The last entry to her in the Term Catalogues is under date February 7th (Hilary), 1673. [Arber's Term Catalogues, vol. 1, 129.]
GRISMAND, see Grismond (J.).
GRISMOND (JOHN) II, printer in London; Ivy Lane, 1639 (?)–1666 (?). This was not the type founder mentioned in the Star Chamber Decree of 1637, for he died in 1638, his will being proved on the last day of December in that year. [p.c.c. 169, Lee.] He left no son. This John Grismond may have been the son of his brother, William Grismond, mentioned in the will. John Grismond II is first met with in the list of printers who were bound over in 1649 not to print seditious books. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649–50, pp. 522, 523.] In 1664, he was arrested at the instance of the Company of Stationers for illegally printing law books (see Fletcher, M.). The John Grismond who, in 1654, was entered as a scholar at Merchant Taylors' School, may have been a son of John Grismond II. [Reed, Old English Letter Foundries, 1887, p. 166, n.].
GROVE (FRANCIS), bookseller in London, (1) On Snow Hill, at the sign of the Windmill, neere vnto St. Sepulchre's Church, 1629; (2) Upper end of Snow Hill neere the Sarazen's Head, without Newgate, 1640. 1623–61. Took up his freedom June 30th, 1623. [Arber, iii. 685.] Dealt chiefly in ballads and the lighter literature of the period. The above addresses are taken from (1) R. Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatory, 1630, (2) Pleasant history of Cawood the Rook, 1640.
GROVE (JOHN), bookseller (?) in London; Betwixt St. Katharine's Stairs and the Mill, next door to the sign of the Ship, 1658. Only known from the imprint to a scarce pamphlet entitled Wine, Ale, Beer and Tobacco, 1658.
GUSTAVUS (CHARLES), bookseller in London, 1657–60. Chiefly a dealer in broadsides. His address has not been found. His name occurs on a broadside entitled The Gang or the Nine Worthies and Champions. [Lutt. Coll. II, 85.]
