Daniel Browne senior (fl. 1692–1729)
Daniel Browne Senior, bookseller and printseller; at the Black Swan and Bible / the Black Swan / the Swan and Bible next door to the Queen's Head, without Temple Bar, 1662–1729.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
Mr. Daniel Browne, I have always thought there's an unusual SWEETNESS, that reigns in this Man's Countenance, he's very humble, and I believe him a good Man. He's a Sincere Lover of the establish'd Church, and yet his Principles are moderate enough.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
BROWN, or BROWNE (DANIEL), bookseller in London, Black Swan and Bible, next door to the Queen's Head, without Temple Bar, 1672–1729. He made his first entry in the Term Catalogues in Easter Term 1672, with a small theological book [T.C. I. 104.], but quickly rose to an important position in the trade. He also sold books by auction. He was still publishing in 1729, when Bernard Lintot sold him a fourth part of a half share in Webb's Antiquities of Stonehenge. [Nichols, Lit. Anecd. VIII. 294.]
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
BROWNE, DANIEL. Of the Black Swan, without Temple Bar, he was one of the most important booksellers in the first half of the eighteenth century. His shop was already well known by the beginning of the period, and by the middle years it had lost none of its reputation. It was this redoubtable publisher who, in conjunction with Nutt and Gosling, founded the 'Historical Register' in 1730. Dunton and Nichols both speak very highly of him (see Dunton i. 208, Nichols i. 240). Nichols also gives a list of his publications (i. 240, 382), and of the Catalogues issued by him during his long career as publisher and bookseller (iii. 615). As late as 1750 a Daniel Browne was publishing from the same address, but this must have been a son, as the elder Browne, if still alive, would be about a hundred years old by that date.
—Frederick T. Wood, 25 July 1931
BROWNE, DANIEL. In most of his earlier imprints his sign is given as the Black Swan and Bible, but after 1702 it is always the Black Swan. DR. WOOD'S conjecture that he was succeeded by a son of the same name is probably correct, as I find an imprint of D. Browne, junior, at the Black Swan, without Temple Bar (1725). Another son was John Henry Browne, a wholesale stationer in Lothbury, who afterwards went into the Church. He was one of the executors of William Bowyer, junior. (Timperley).
—Ambrose Heal, 8 August 1931