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Floruit: 1612–1639
floruit (A) 1612 - 1639 ; Male
Introduction
John Bull was a bookseller active in London during the early seventeenth century, with a shop on Grub Street. He was bound as an apprentice to William Cox in 1604 and gained his freedom from the Stationers' Company in 1612. Bull is first documented as a publisher in 1624 with the publication of Sir Henry Wotton's Elements of Architecture, and subsequently became known for dealing in political pamphlets and broadsides after 1640.
Livery Companies
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| Stationers' Company |
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
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| (unknown -- ref: ST/0:0562)
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Had Apprentice(s): (5)
Events (7)
Sources and References
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Plomer, H.R. (1907) p.39
BULL (JOHN), bookseller in London; Grub Street, 1624-43. Is first heard of in 1624, when he published Sir Henry Wotton's Elements of Architecture. Nothing more is heard of him until after 1640, when he appears to have dealt chiefly in political pamphlets and broadsides. [Gray's Index to Hazlitt; Bibl. Lindes, Catalogue of Broadsities, 19, 26.]