Sparke, Michael, -1653 (Personal Name)

Not to be confused with his son Michael Sparke, jun., who was in partnership with his father until the son's death in 1645

His The poore orphans court, 1973: t.p. (M.S.)

LC manual cat. (hdg.: Sparke, Michael, d. 1653)

The Narrative history of King James, for the first fourteen years [MI] 1651: added t.p. (Michaell Sparke) 6th prelim. leaf (signed: Mi. Scintilla)

Stonehill, C. Anon. & pseud. (Scintilla, 1641, by Michael Sparke)

Carter, J. The nail & the vvheel, 1647: imprint on t.p. (Printed ... for M. Spark, and are to be sold at the sign of the blue Bible in Green-Arbour)

BLC (hdg.: Scintilla, pseud. [i.e. Michael Sparke])

Plomer, H. Dict. of the booksellers and printers ... 1641 to 1667, 1907 (Sparke, Michael, senior; bookseller in London; Blue Bible in Green Arbor Court, Old Bailey, 1616-53; freedom June 10, 1610; fined for publishing William Prynne's Histrio-mastix; also author of Scintilla; died Dec. 29, 1653; in partnership with Michael Sparke, jun., until latter's death in 1645)

ESTC (RLIN), Dec. 23, 1997 (hdg.: Sparke, Michael, d. 1653; usage: M.S., Mi: Spark, Mic: Sparke, Michaell Sparke, M. Spark, Scintilla, Mich. Spark, Michael Sparke, Michael Spark; fl. 1621-1653)

Porta linguarum trilinguis reserata & aperta, sive, Seminarium linguarum & scientiarum omnium, 1639: imprint statement (Michaelis Sparke)

Prynne, W. Anti-Arminianisme, or, The Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme, 1630: imprint statement (M. Sparke [bookseller])

DNB; Halkett & Laing