Thomas Fawcet (d. 1655; fl. 16211643)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer

Dates

  • Freedom: 1621

Names

  • Thomas Fawcet
  • Thomas Fawcett

Thomas Fawcet or Fawcett or Forcet, printer; in Grub Street, near the lower pump, 1625–40; in Heydon Court, Old Fish Street. Partner of Bernard Alsop from 1625.

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

FAWCETT or FORCET (THOMAS), printer in London, (1) Grub Street; (2) Heydon Court in old Fish Street neere the upper end of Lambert Hill. 1621–43. Took up his freedom May 7th, 1621 [Arber, iii. 685.) Partner with Bernard Alsop, q.v. In Sir J. Lambe's Notes [Arber, iii. 704], he is described as the abler man, better workman and better governor. The second address given above is from a title-page in the Bagford Collection entitled, True Character of Mercurius Aulicus, a work of which no copy has been traced.