ALSOP, or ALSOPP (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Two sugar loaves over against St. Antholin's Church, at the lower end of Watling Street, 1657. His name is found in the following book: Poems by Hugh Crompton, The Son of Bacchus and Godson of Apollo. Being a fardle of Fancies, or a medley of musick, stewed in four ounces of the Oyl of Epigrames. [Hazlitt, Handbook, p. 130.]
ANDERSON (ANDREW), printer at Edinburgh, 1653–57; at Glasgow, 1657–61; again at Edinburgh on the north side of the cross, 1661–76. Son of George Anderson. Succeeded heirs of G. Anderson in 1653. Removed to Glasgow about July, 1657, by invitation of the Town Council, who offered him one hundred marks per annum as a pension. He returned to Edinburgh in the summer of 1661, and in 1663 was appointed printer to the town and college on the death of G. Lithgow. In 1671 he was appointed King's Printer for forty-one years, and took several partners. Andrew Anderson died in June, 1676, being succeeded by his widow, Agnes, and his son, James. Most of his type and ornaments had been in use in the printing offices of Edinburgh for many years, and were in a very worn condition, his productions and those of his successors being among the poorest and most slovenly that came from the press of Scotland. Ninety-three issues have been traced to his press. [H. G. Aldis, List of books printed in Scotland before 1700 … with brief notes on the printers and stationers. Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Publications, 1905.]
ANDERSON (GEORGE), printer at Edinburgh, "in King James his college, 1637–38; at Glasgow in Hutshisons Hospitall in the Trongate," 1638–47. Commenced printing in Edinburgh in 1637, having acquired a considerable part of the printing materials of Robert Young, q.v. In 1638 Anderson removed to Glasgow, taking a press with him. He worked chiefly for the General Assembly, but in 1644 he printed the Rev. John Row's Hebrew Grammar and Vocabulary, probably one of the earliest books in that language, printed in Scotland. George Anderson is believed to have died in 1648. He left a son, Andrew Anderson, who ultimately succeeded to the business. [H. G. Aldis, List of books printed in Scotland before 1700.]
ANDERSON (Heirs of GEORGE), printers in Glasgow, 1648, and in Edinburgh, 1649-53. On the death of George Anderson in 1647 the Town
