A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Harris (John)
HARRIS (JOHN), printer and bookseller, London and Oxford, 1647-69. Mr. W. H. Allnutt in his papers on the English Provincial Presses, after noticing the presses of Newcastle and Gateshead, refers to a statement made by Lord Holles in his Memoirs, that the Parliamentary Army was in 1647 accompanied by a printing press. He also notices a statement made by Mr. C H. Firth, who in 1891 edited the Clarke Papers for the Camden Society, to the effect that, "The printer of these pamphlets seems to have been a certain John Harris, who himself wrote several pamphlets under the name of Sirrahniho." [Bibliographica, vol. 2, pp. 292-3.] This seems to be confirmed by the two following imprints: (1) Declaration of Master William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons … Oxford, printed by J. Harris and H. Hills, living in Pennifarthing Street, 1647. [B.M. 103, a. 39.] (2) The humble address of the agitators 14th Augt 1647. London, for J. Harris, Printer to His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. There was also a John Harris carrying on the trade of a bookseller at Addle Hill off Thames Street in 1649, who may have been the same person whose name is found on a pamphlet entitled The Accuser sham'd [E. 624 (2)], while Hazlitt in his Collections, and Notes (ii. p. 530), notices another book issued in 1669 by a John Harris, of which, however, no copy has been traced.