A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Johnson (Thomas)
JOHNSON (THOMAS), printer in London, (1) Key or Golden Key, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1661-4; (2) White Cock, Rood Lane, Margaret Pattens (St. Dunstans in the East), 1660-6 (1642-77). In the survey taken in 1668 he is returned as having two presses and three workmen. [Plomer, Short History, p. 226.] In April, 1666, he was imprisoned in Ludgate for printing a book that offended the censor, and was bound over in £500 to be of good behaviour. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, 155, 70.] In 1659 he entered in the registers a work entitled Ludgate what it is not, what it was, Or a full discovery and description of the nature and quality, orders and government of that Prison. By Mr. Johnson Typograph a late prisoner there. [Stationers' Registers, Liber F, p. 156.] This was written by Marmaduke Johnson, printer. A list of books printed and sold by Thomas Johnson in 1658 occupies sigs. Ee 5-8 in T. Polwhele's Treatise of Self Denial, 1658. [E 1733.] It consists of 36 works on various subjects, arranged in sizes, the titles being set out in full.