The house of Harrison; being an account of the family and firm of Harrison and sons, printers to the King . A RELIC OF THOS. AND HANNAH Parents of the Founders of the Firm of Harrison and Sons To face />. I. THE BELLS OF ST. MARTINS It vv^as on June ist, 1738, that a youth named Thomas Harrisonwas apprenticed at Stationers Hall to Mr. Edward Owen, of AmenComer, Ludgate Hill, the Confidential Government Printer, the sumof ^20 being paid by way of consideration or premium. Five years later his brother, James Harrison, was apprenticed toEdward Say, another printer resident in Warw
The house of Harrison; being an account of the family and firm of Harrison and sons, printers to the King . A RELIC OF THOS. AND HANNAH Parents of the Founders of the Firm of Harrison and Sons To face />. I. THE BELLS OF ST. MARTINS It vv^as on June ist, 1738, that a youth named Thomas Harrisonwas apprenticed at Stationers Hall to Mr. Edward Owen, of AmenComer, Ludgate Hill, the Confidential Government Printer, the sumof ^20 being paid by way of consideration or premium. Five years later his brother, James Harrison, was apprenticed toEdward Say, another printer resident in Warwick Lane, close two boys, whose ages were respectively 15 and 13, had comefrom the town of Reading. Whether, like Dick Whittington, they hadtrudged up to London on foot we do not know, nor whether the lightsof London and the chiming of the church bells may have appealedto their young imaginations, as to Whittingtons, with a romanticpromise of the strenuous life to come ; but this at least we know, that thetwo brothers took up their residence with their respective masters inWarwick Lane, in the P
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