HUMBLE, George ‹ LBT 02695 ›

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Floruit: 1610–1640

Floruit 1610 (A) — 1640 (B);  Male

Livery Companies

Company Source
Leathersellers' Company

Occupations (2)

Occupation Comment
Bookseller McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
Print seller McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Addresses (1)

Date Address Trade at Addr Source Comment
1610, (1610-1627) Pope's Head Alley McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - the White Horse

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Transcriptions

(?) [[[HUMBLE, Thomas ‹ LBT 08526 ›|(LBT/08526)]] | Th

ODNB - under John How, article by Antony Griffiths

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.86-7

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.146

HUMBLE (GEORGE), bookseller, printseller and patentee in London, 1611-32; (1) The White Horse, Pope's Head Alley, 1610-27; (2) In Pope's Head Palace, 1627. On April 29th, 1608, privilege was granted to George Humble to print John Speed's Theater of the Empire of Greal Britayne with cartes and maps [Calendar of Dom. S. Papers, Jas. I, 1603-10, p. 425]. He was also the publisher of others of Speed's works. Probably a son of Thomas Humble { HUMBLE, Thomas ‹ LBT 08526 › }, 1566-81.

MLT Note: Sometime Master of the Leathersellers' Company. ---