Robert Harford
Robert Harford Sr., bookseller at the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1677–1681.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
HARFORD (ROBERT), sen., bookseller in London, Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1677–81. Probably son of Ralph and Elizabeth Harford, see Dictionary, 1641–67. He made his first entry in the Term Catalogues in Trin. 1677. [T.C. I. 285.] He published a news sheet called Mercurius Anglicus (no. 1, November 20th, 1679). No. 12 appeared as The True News or Mercurius Anglicus; unlike other "Mercuries", which consisted of one leaf, the first eleven numbers consisted of two leaves or four pages; but this was soon found too expensive, and it reverted to the ordinary form in no. 12. It contained a few advertisements, chiefly of books published by Harford. Amongst his varied publications was Edmund Halley's Catalogus Stettarum Australium in Mich. 1678. [T.C. I. 335.]