Fincham Gardiner

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Dates

  • Apprenticeship: 1677

Names

  • Fincham Gardner
  • Fincham Gardiner

Fincham Gardiner or Gardner, bookseller, 1682–1684; at the Three Roses, in Ludgate Street; at the White Horse, in Ludgate Street. Son of Abraham, late citizen and fishmonger, apprenticed to Walter Kettilby 5 March 1677.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

GARDINER, or GARDNER (FINCHAM), bookseller in London, (i) Three Roses, Ludgate Street; (2) White Horse, Ludgate Street. 1682–4. Mainly a publisher of divinity; but in 1682, he was one of the publishers of Sir William Dugdale's Antient Usage of ... Armes. He is perhaps the person alluded to by Dunton [p. 293] as "prudent" Gardner.