HAREFINCH, John ‹ LBT 02689 ›
floruit 1685 (C)—1685 (C); Male
Livery Companies
| Company | Source |
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| Leathersellers' Company |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Cf. Plomer, H.R. &c. (1922), p.143
HAREFINCH (JOHN), printer and bookseller in London, Montague Court in Little Britain, 1682-1690 (?). In 1682 he printed for H. Rhodes a novel called The Pastime Royal [Esdaile, p. 282], in 1683 for James Norris, Haec and Hic; Or, The Feminine Gender more worthy than the Masculine [Haz. III. 271], and in 1684, for the same, Poems and Discourses by John Norris. [Haz. I. 308.] In the Term Catalogue of Trin. 1688 [T.C. II. 236] he advertised Chr. Musgrave's Motives.
In the following year he printed for William Hensman { HENSMAN, William ( - 1713) ‹ LBT 14687 › }, the bookseller at the King's Head, Westminster Hall, Nicholas Greenwood's Astronomia Anglicana. This work was not advertised in the Term Catalogue but in The London Gazette, where the further informntion is given that the book was to be had at the shop of Rest Fenner in Canterbury. The printer's name was not given. Harefinch died about 1690, and his widow afterwards married a printer named Sharpless. [Records of Stat. Co.]