PETHER AM

John . b. Old mix on, near Weston-super-mare 1809; spent some years in U.S. of America in the wholesale drug trade; secondhand bookseller at 71 Chancery lane, London Sept. 1841, then at 94 High Holborn 1847 to death; compiled and i ued 207 catalogues; i ued between 1843 and 1847 Puritan discipline tracts, being reprints of 6 tracts on the Martin Mar-Prelate controversy of 1589–92, their titles are An epitome, An epistle, Pappe with a hatchet, Hay any worke for cooper, An almond for a parrot, and Bishop Cooper’s admonition; edited A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfort 1575, 1846, and a Bibliographical miscellany, 5 parts 1859; author of An historical sketch of the progre and present state of Anglo-Saxon literature in England 1840; Reasons for establishing an Authors’ publication society 1863. d. 94 High Holborn 18 Dec. 1858. Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate controversy (1845); Publishers’ Circular 31 Dec. 1858 p. 639; Bookseller Feb. 1859 p. 727.