The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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John Aston ( - fl. 1637-42)

London bookseller, active at
Cat-eaten-streete (Cheapside, renamed in 1845 Gresham Street), at the signe of the Bul's Head, 1637-42. Took up his freedom February 6th, 1637 [Arber, iii 688], in which year he published Thomas Heywood's True Description of His Majesties Royall Ship Built this Year 1637 at Woollwitch in Kent.>/i> 4to.; and a satire on women called A Curtaine Lecture, 1637. 12o. In 1641 he was imprisoned for a short time for printing the Preamble with the protestation made by the whole House of Commons, 3 May 1641. [B.M. 669, f. 3 (2), Commons Journals.] (Plomer, 7-8). Other biography: http://www.archive.org/stream/adictionarybook00plomgoog/adictionarybook00plomgoog_djvu.txt Printer or Publisher
Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business London, England
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland.
as Mentions or references - Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den ersten germanischen ansiedlungen in Britannien bis zum ende des 18. jahrhunderts..
References in Documents:
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] [*]John Okes and John Aston. Entred for their Copie Sept. 15th 1637 . . . a booke called The discription of the kings great new ship at Woolwich by Master [Thomas] Haywood (Arber, Transcript IV p. 367).