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Floruit: 1588–1599
floruit 1588 (A)—1599 (B); Male
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
circa- 26 Oct 1599 |
McKerrow, R. B. &c. (1910)
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Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c (1910)
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (2)
Addresses (3)
Events (3)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
- said to be dead at the time of the child's bindi
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.49
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.83-4
DANTER (JOHN), printer in London, 1589-99; (1) Duck Lane, near Smithfield, 1591; (2) Hosier Lane, near Holborn Conduit, 1592. Son of John Danter of Eynsham, co. Oxford, weaver. Apprentice to John Day { DAY, John (1522 - 1584) ‹ LBT 07316 › }, printer, for nine years from March, 1582, but in 1588 he was transferred to Robert Robinson { ROBINSON, Robert ( - 1597) ‹ LBT 08395 › } [Arber, ii. 114, 151]. During his apprenticeship he was found assisting in working a secret press at which Richard Day's { DAY, Richard (1552 - 1607) ‹ LBT 07331 › } patents the Grammar and Accidence were printed in large numbers. In consequence the Wardens of the Company of Stationers disabled him from ever becoming a master printer. This sentence was however remitted a year or two later, and after taking up his freedom on the last day of September, 1589, he was allowed to share a printing business with William Hoskins { HOSKYNS, William ( - 1604) ‹ LBT 08583 › } and Henry Chettle { CHETTLE, Henry ( - 1607) ‹ LBT 07398 › }. The partnership only lasted a short time, and towards the end of 1591 John Danter set up for himself at Duck Lane, near Smithfield. On February 6th, 1593/4, he entered in the Registers A booke intituled, a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus. This was the first quarto of Shakespeare's play, and no copy of it was known to exist until 1905, when a Swedish gentleman discovered a copy amongst his books. The imprint runs, "London, Printed by Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White { WHITE, Edward ( - 1612) ‹ LBT 08008 › } & Thomas Millington { MILLINGTON, Thomas ‹ LBT 07079 › }, at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne. 1594." In 1596 his press was seized for printing a Roman Catholic book of devotion called Jesus Psalter [Arber, i. 580; Herbert, p. 1270]. In the same year he also printed for Thomas Nashe, the satirist, who was apparently then living with him, Have with you to Saffron-Walden [see sig. S1. of that work]. In 1597 Danter printed the first (pirated) quarto of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Like all his work, it was very badly printed. He was shortly afterwards in trouble again for printing privileged books and was dead before the end of 1599. [Arber, iii. 153; Library, April, 1906, pp. 149-66.]