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Floruit: 1589–1603
floruit 1589 (A)—1603 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
1603 |
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Family Relationships
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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Had Apprentice(s): (4)
Addresses (1)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1589, (1589-1603) |
Bread Street |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the Star
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Events (6)
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
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.154
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.244-5
SHORT (PETER), printer in London, 1589-1603; The Star on Bread Street Hill. Admitted a freeman of the Company of Stationers by "redemption" on March 1st, 1588/9 [Arber, ii. 705], and admitted into the livery of the Company on July 1st, 1598 [Arher, ii. 873]. He appears to have succeeded to the business of Henry Denham { DENHAM, Henry ‹ LBT 08578 › } and was at first in partnership with Richard Yardley { YARDLAY, Richard ( - 1597) ‹ LBT 07928 › }, their first entry in the Registers being made on July 5th, 1591 [Arber, ii. 588]. Yardley's name is not found after 1593.
Peter Short had an extensive business, printing for William Ponsonby { PONSONBY, William ( - 1603) ‹ LBT 08175 › } and other important booksellers. Amongst many noted books that came from his press were Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I. printed for Andrew Wise { WYTHES, Andrew ‹ LBT 08479 › } in 1598; Shakespeare's Lucrece printed for John Harrison, the younger { HARRISON, John ( - 1617) ‹ LBT 07622 › }, in 1598; Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, printed for Cuthbert Burby { BURBY, Cuthbert ( - 1607) ‹ LBT 08823 › } in 1598; Foxe's Acts and Monuments, begun by Henry Denham and finished by Peter Short in 1596-7; Thomas Morley's Playne and Easie Introduction to Musicke in 1596, and Dr. Wlliam Gilbert's De Magnete, 1600. Peter Short used several marks or devices, notably the Star and the Serpent, both of which he derived from Henry Denham.
He died some time in 1603, being succeeded by his widow { SHORT, Emma ( - 1629) ‹ LBT 03247 › }. [Peter Short, Printer, and His Marks, by Silvanus P. Thompson, in Bibl. Soc. Trans., vol. iv, p. 103 et seq.]
