Elizabeth Alsop (fl. 1647–1664)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer

Names

  • Elizabeth Alsop
  • Elizabeth Allsopp
  • Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth Alsop, printer, near/opposite the Upper Pump in Grub Street 1647–1664. Widow of Bernard Alsop. She took on an apprentice, George Eland, in 1657. She was an associate of Robert Wood, probably the same person who had apprenticed under Bernard Alsop.

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

ALSOP, or ALLSOPP (ELIZABETH), printer in London; "At her house in Grub Street near the Upper Pump," 1653–56. Is believed to have been the widow of Bernard Alsop. The last book entry to her was on April 22nd, 1656.