Elizabeth Alsop — printer and bookseller
- Creator(s):
- Lloyd, Lodowick
- Title:
- The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimage of kings and princes: truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone: collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue: shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities: a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example
- Publication/Origin:
- London: Printed by E. Alsop, 1653
- Description:
- English printer Elizabeth Alsop was the widow of printer Bernard Alsop and published under her own name from 1653 to 1656. Her business was located on Grub Street, a locale known for its concentration of low-end publishers, tabloid journalism, and “hack writers.” The Welsh author of this title was a colorful figure in the courts of Queen Elizabeth and King James.
- Citation:
- Lloyd, Lodowick, The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimage of kings and princes: truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone: collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue: shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities: a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example, London: Printed by E. Alsop, 1653, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 24, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3999