SCOLOKER, Anthony ‹ LBT 30088 ›
floruit 1547 (A)—1549 (A); Male
Occupations (1)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Printer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Addresses (3)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1547, (1547) | Suffolk - Ipswich - St Nicolas | Duff, E.G. (1905) | ||
| 1548, (1548) | St Botolph Aldersgate | - Parish of | ||
| 1549, (1549) | Strand | - Savoy Rents |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. E.G.Duff.
Duff, E.G. (1905), pp.144-5
SCOLOKER (ANTHONY), printer in Ipswich and London, was an Englishman by birth and not as Herbert suggested a foreigner. He began to print at Ipswich in St. Nicholas' Parish about 1547 and after printing some four books moved in 1548 to London, where he settled in St. Botolph's Parish without Aldersgate. There he printed about ten books, the majority being issued in partnership with William Seres { SERES, William ( - 1580) ‹ LBT 08396 › }, and the three which are dated being all of 1548. After that year he moved to the Savoy Rents in the Strand and his assistant is mentioned in the Subsidy Roll of 1549 "With Anthony Scolyca, Hance Rycard { RYCARD, Hans ‹ LBT 30087 › }." [R. of A., I, 151]. At this new address he printed about six books, all undated, and one at least with W. Seres. The two editions of Hans Brinklow's Complaint of Roderyck Mors which are said in their colophons to have been printed at Geneva in Savoy by Michael Boys are in Scoloker's type and were perhaps printed in the Savoy Rents. Several books which he printed were translations of his own from French and German. He used as a device a hand rubbing a coin on a touchstone inscribed "Verbum Dei" with the text "Prove the spyrites whether they be of God." In his edition of the Ordinary of Christians is a good woodcut illustration of a printing press. [D.N.B.]