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Floruit: 1608–1649
Floruit 1608 (A) — 1649 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Birth |
30 Nov 1583 |
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| Death |
1649 |
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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| Stationer |
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Had Apprentice(s): (2)
Addresses (1)
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
ODNB - article by Sidney Lee also under Compton Holland, article by Antony Griffiths
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.84
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.140-1
HOLLAND (HENRY), bookseller in London, 1609-47; The Holy Bush, Ivy Lane. Son of Dr. Philemon Holland of Coventry, where he was born on September 29th, 1583. On March 25th, 1599, he became apprentice to John Norton { NORTON, John ( - 1612) ‹ LBT 08174 › }, stationer of London, for ten years, and took up his freedom on l December 5th, 1608 [Arber, ii. 237; iii. 683]. In company with John Wright { WRIGHT, John ‹ LBT 08748 › }, Henry Holland made his first book entry in the Registers on February 4th, 1608/9 [Arber, iii. 401]. In 1614 he compiled and published with M. Law { LAW, Mathew ( - 1629) ‹ LBT 07969 › } a work entitled Monumneta Sepulchraria Sancti Pauli, but he is best known as the compiler of two books notable for their illustrations, the first, Baziliwlogia, a book of kings, beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest until this present . . . . 1618, folio. Perfect copies of this work contain thirty-one portraits, besides the titlepage. It was printed for H. Holland and to be sold by Compton Holland [q.v.] { HOLLAND, Compton ‹ LBT 30690 › }. Thc second and more important of the two was entitled Herwologia Anglicae, and was printed in 1620 at the expense of Chrispin de Passe and Jan Jansson, bookseller at Arnheim. This, like its predecessor; was a collection of portraits of eminent Englishmen with letterpress by Holland. In this there are sixty-five portraits and two engravings of monuments. In 1626 Henry Holland published at Cambridge the posthumous works of his brother Abraham, under the title of Hollandi Posthuma. He also helped his father Philemon Holland with his later publications. Henry Holland's last book entry occurs in the Registers on May 14th, 1633 [Arber, iv. 296]. Details of his later life are furnished by a broadsheet issued in 1647 appealing for alms on his, behalf. From this it appears that he rented a house in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, and in 1643 served in the Life Guards of Basil Fielding [B.M., 669. f. 11. (34)]. He is belieyed to have been still alive in 1649. [D.N.B.]
