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HARRISON—HARROWER.

HARRISON (), Mrs., bookseller in London; Lamb, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1654. Widow of John Harrison, q.v., 1641-53. Her name is mentioned in an advertisement of a lost horse in the Perfect Account of September 27th, 1654. [E. 812 (15).]

HARRISON (JOHN), bookseller in London; [Lamb or Holy Lamb (?)] St. Paul's Churchyard, 1641-53. Dealer in miscellaneous literature. Published amongst other things John Dennis's Secrets of Angling, 1652. [B.M. C 31. d. 43.] Believed to have died before 1653.

HARRISON (JOHN), junr., bookseller in London; Holy Lamb East End of Pauls, 1654-56. Probably son of the preceding. His name is found on Robert Turner's Microkosmus, 1654.

HARRISON (MARTHA), bookseller in London; Lamb. East end of Paul's, 1649-57. Probably widow of John Harrison, q.v., and mother of John Harrison, junr., q.v. On July 13th, 1649, a warrant was issued by the Council of State for the apprehension of Martha Harrison and Francis Heldersham, q.v., for printing and publishing a seditious libel called Pragmaticus. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649-50, p. 541. See also Ellis, W.] A list of ten books published by her, including Mascal's Government of Cattle; Wentworth's Miscellanea; an edition of the fourth book of Cornelius Agrippa in English, as well as medical and astrological works, is given at the end of R. Turner's translation of L. Cambachius, Sal, Lumen & Spiritus Mundi, 1657. [B.M. 8630. a. 21.]

HARRISON (MILES), bookseller at Kendal in 1660. His name will be found on the following pamphlet: Brownsward (W.), The Quaker Jesuit, 1660. [E. 1013 (4).]

HARRISON (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1643. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled The Priviledges of Parliament … London Printed for Thomas Harrison, 1643. [B.M. 1093. b. 118.] His address has not been found.

HARROWER (JAMES), bookseller in Edinburgh, 1600(?)-54. "In vol. 67, May 10, 1654, is registered the testament dative of James Harrower bookseller, burges of Edinburgh, 'quha deceist in the moneth of Fe. 1m vjc