Samuel Briscoe
Samuel Briscoe, bookseller over against Will's Coffee House; at the corner of Charles Street, both in Russell Street, Covent Garden; at La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill; at the Sun, against St. John's Coffee House in Swithin's Alley, Cornhill.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
BRISCOE (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, Russell Street, Covent Garden, (a) over against Wills's Coffee House, (b) at the corner shop of Charles Street. 1691–1705. First heard of in Mich. 1691, as one of the publishers of a translation of Suetonius. [T.C. II. 381.] He published numerous plays and also two novels, The Siege of Mentz [B.M. 635. a. 5 (i)], and The Female Gallant, both issued in 1692. [T.C. II. 402.] His name appears in the Term Catalogues for the last time in Hil. 1696. [T.C. II. 571.] He was the publisher of the 2nd ed. of Richard Blome's Art of Heraldry, 1693. Dunton [pp. 292–3] refers to him mysteriously as "revived Briscoe, who has printed for Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, &c., and by contracting a friendship with Tom Brown, will grow rich as fast as his author can write or hear from the Dead, so that honest Sam does, as it were, thrive by his misfortunes, and I hear has the satisfaction and goodness to forgive those enemies who are now starving, as a judgment upon them, for attempting his overthrow."
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
BRISCOE, SAMUEL. He was publishing from premises over against Will's Coffee House at the opening of the century, and in 1703 Dunton describes him as "revived Briscoe," whatever he may imply by that term. Plomer loses sight of him at this stage in his history but press advertisements reveal the fact that he was conducting a flourishing business at La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, between the years 1710 and 1722, while the Weekly Journal for Saturday, Jan. 9, 1720, contains an extensive list of his publications.
—Frederick T. Wood, 25 July 1931