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References
- ↑ Henry Robert Plomer, A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, London, The Bibliographical Society/Blades, East & Blades, 1907; p. 53.
- ↑ Henry Robert Plomer, A Short History of English Printing, 1476–1898, London, Kegan Paul, 1900; pp. 178–9.
- ↑ George Watson Cole and Philip Sanford Goulding, Check-List or Brief Catalogue of the Library of Henry E. Huntington, New York (privately printed), 1919.
- ↑ Peter Hampson Ditchfield, The Parish Clerk, London, Methuen, 1907; pp. 115–26.
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