David Mallet (fl. 1677 – 1689?)
David Mallet, printer, 1677–1689?; in Half-Moon Court, adjoining to Ludgate; next door to Mr. Shipton's Coffee House, near Fleet Bridge.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
MALLET (DAVID), printer in London, (i) Half-Moon Court, adjoining to Ludgate; (2) next door to Mr. Shipton's Coffee House, near Fleet Bridge. 1677–89 (?). One of the lesser London printers. In 1677 he reprinted a scurrilous ballad called The Four-Legg'd Elder, originally issued in 1647. [Haz. II. 192.] In 1680 he printed for Elkanah Settle, The Life and Death of Major Clancie, which was on sale at his house in Half-Moon Court [T.C. I. 382], and in 1687 Sir Charles Sedley's Bellamira came from his press. Mallet also printed many broadsides and Narratives of the Proceedings at the Old Bailey. His work was very rough, and his type poor. In 1686 he was forbidden by the Company of Stationers to print any more [Records of Stat. Co.], and his name disappears in 1687, but the initials D. M., which may be his, are found as late as 1689 in England's Happiness Restored. [B.M. 1872. a. I (9).]