PARKER (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) The Ball, Paul's Churchyard, 1618 [Sayle, 934]; (2) The Three Pigeons, Paul's Churchyard, 1620-48 (?) 1617-48. Son of George Parker, of Honington, Warwickshire, yeoman. Took up his freedom March 1st, 1617. [Arber, iii. 684.] Parker was associated with Henry Fetherston until 1619, and in 1620 he took over the copyrights of W. Barrett which had previously belonged to Gabriel Cawood and W. Leake, amongst which were Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Lylly's Euphues, About this time he bought the shares of several of the adventurers in the Latin stock. Nominated overseer to the will of John Grismond, who died in 1638; Warden of the Company of Stationers, 1641, 1644, 1645; Master of the Company, 1647 and 1648. Died July 30th, 1648. [Smyth's Obituary, p. 26.] His will, an interesting document, was dated October 28th, 1647, and proved on August 16th, 1648. The following stationers received rings: Andrew Crooke, Charles Greene, Francis Egglesfield, Octavian Pullen, Richard and Thomas Whitaker, while Miles Fletcher was nominated one of the overseers. [P.C.C. 124, Essex.]
PARKER (PETER), bookseller in London, (1) At the end of Popes Head Alley next Lombard Street, 1665; (2) Under Creed Church, nr Aldgate, 1667. One of the publishers of the first edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, 1667. [Masson's Life of Milton, vol. vi, p. 516.]
PARKHURST (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) George in Little Britain, 1653-6; (2) Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside [near the Conduit or near Mercers Chapel]; (3) Golden Bible upon London Bridge, 1666-7. (1653-67). Dealt chiefly, if not entirely, in theological literature. A list of 25 publications on sale by him in 1657 is found at the end of the first part of S. Purchas's Theatre of Political Flying Insects, 1657. [B.M. 452, a. 37.] A much longer list, arranged under sizes, was issued with W. Seeker's Nonsuch Professor, 1660.
PARRY (LEONARD), printer in London; Dogwell Court, Whitefriars, 1660-63. In partnership with Thomas Childe.
PARTRIDGE (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Purse Court in the Old Bailey, 1641; (2) Sun in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1644; (3) Cock in Ludgate Street, 1645; (4) Blackfriars, going into Carter Lane, 1648-9 (1623-49).
