Susan Islip (fl. 16411661)

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Occupations

  • Printer

Susan Islip, printer in Smithfield, 1641–1661. Widow of printer Adam Islip.

A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557–1640, by R.B. McKerrow (1910)

ISLIP (SUSAN), printer in London; (?) Smithfield, 1641–61. Widow of Adam Islip, who died in 1639, leaving his printing presses, etc., to Richard Hearne or Herne, q.v. Hearne appears to have died about 1646, when probably Susan Islip succeeded to the business.