Peter Stent (c. 1613–1665) was a seventeenth-century

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printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest

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businesses of the day. Stent originally was an engraver himself. Edward Calver wrote verses to a set of Stent's plates from 1635. He then sold works of other artists, such as John Dunstall, John Fillian,

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, and George Glover. He also recycled plates he had acquired, in new printings: for example of the penmanship of Martin Billingsley, by George Gifford, from Sir Robert Peake and Thomas Rowlett via Thomas Hinde. Stent died in the

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. His business was taken over by

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References

*Alexander Globe (1985). ''Peter Stent, London Printseller''.

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Press. .

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External links

*Alexander Globe
‘Stent, Peter (b. in or before 1613, d. 1665)’
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 12 January 2008 * 1610s births 1665 deaths English businesspeople English printers British printmakers {{england-business-bio-stub