FORCET, see Fawcet (T.).
FORREST (EDWARD), bookseller in Oxford, 1625-82. There may have been two men of this name during this period, probably father and son. In 1669 an Edward Forrest is found in partnership with John Forrest, q.v. William Hall printed for him: Cowell (Jo.), Institutiones Juris Anglicani, 1664. [Ames Collect. 3213. See also F. Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, pp. 29, 31.]
FORREST (JOHN), bookseller in Oxford, 1660-69. In partnership with E. Forrest, q.v., in 1669. [Arber, Term Catalogues, vol i. p. 11; F. Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, p. 30.]
FOSTER (MARK), bookseller in York, 1642. Stephen Bulkley, the York printer, printed three broadsides for this bookseller in July, 1642: (1) Sir B. Rudyard's Worthy speech … in the … H. of Commons … July 1642, [B.M. 190. g.]; (2) The petition of Sir F. Wortley to the king on behalf of the Commons of York. [190 g. 12. (13)]; (3) The petition of divers baronets of the County of Lincoln. [190 g. 12. (68).]
FOSTER (RICHARD), bookseller in York; Minster Yard, 1659. His name is found on a pamphlet entitled The Rendezvous of General Monck. 1659. [E. 1005. (11).] FOULKES, see Fowkes.
FOWKES, or FOULKES (EDWARD), (?) bookseller in London, 1664. Associated with Peter Bodvell, q.v., in publishing the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh, printed for them by S. Dover in 1664. He may have been a descendant of Thomas or Nicholas Fowkes, mentioned in Arber's Transcript, ii. 132. His address has not been found. [Rowland's Cambrian Bibl., p. 191.]
FOWLER (HENRY), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. Hazlitt mentions several political tracts printed for him, none of which has been traced [Hazlitt, ii. 680; iii. 283, 290, 292.]
