LANGFORD (TOBY), bookseller in Gloucester, 1646. Mentioned in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, vol. i, p. 258, as publisher of Giles Workman's Private men no pulpit men, 1646.
LARKIN (GEORGE), bookseller and printer in London; Two Swans without Bishopsgate, 1666–90. Publisher of John Bunyan's Grace Abounding, 1666, 8o. Afterwards became a printer. [Gray's Index to Hazlitt, p. 435.]
LARNER (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Golden Anchor, neere Paul's Chain, 1641; (2) The Bible in East Cheap, 1642; (3) Blackmoor in Bishopsgate Street, 1650; (4) Blackmoor near Fleet Bridge, 1652 (1641–59). A noted Puritan and Independent bookseller. In 1642 he published a kind of history of Lilburne’s sufferings, which he entitled the Christian Man's Trial. He served in the Parliamentary army, but was invalided home and resumed his trade as a bookseller at the sign of the Blackamoor in Bishopsgate Street. He assisted Henry Robinson, Robert and Richard Overton, and John Lilburne to print books secretly, and is believed to have taken an active part in the working of the Coleman Street Press, 1643 (?)–445; the Martin Mar Priest Press, 1645–46; the Goodman's Fields Press, 1645, and a press in Bishopsgate Street, 1646. Larner's premises were searched on several occasions, and he was at last thrown into prison, where he remained for many months. No more is heard of him after 1659. [Plomer, Secret Printing during the Civil War; Library, October, 1904, p. 374 et seq.]
LATHAM (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller in London. 1641–2. Took up his freedom January 18th, 1636. [Arber, iii. 687.] Edward Griffin printed for him. In 1642 he was associated with T. Creake in publishing several political pamphlets. His name disappears after July, 1642.
LATHAM (GEORGE), bookseller in London, (1) Brazen Serpent, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Bishop's Head, St. Paul's Church Yard. 1622–58. Took up up his freedom January 31st, 1620, and the same day took over several copyrights from the widow of George Bishop. [Arber, iii. 664, 685.] On November 6th, 1628, he received another assignment from Humphrey Lownes, but these he reassigned to Robert Young on December 6th, 1630. Latham was master of the Company of Stationers in 1650. His death
