LIST,

Based on the Registers of the Stationers Company,
 

OF
 

847   LONDON   PUBLISHERS

(WHO were by trade, Peintees,^Engeavers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, &c., &c.)
 

between
 

1553   AND   1640,  A.D.

Being a Master Key to English Bibliography during a period in which almost all

authorised books were printed in the metropolis; excepting principally

a number which, froiil 1584-85 onwards, came from the university

Presses of Cambridge and Oxford.
 

by
 

EDWAED    ARBER  f.sa^
 

At the back of the History of the printed Literature lies the History of Printing itself.
 

[An Advance Edition of this List was published separately on 1 May 1890.
It has now been thoroughly revised and corrected.]