Q: "Whale [and ghost printer]" in 1707?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Sep 9 16:59:33 UTC 2014


What is "whale" in "Jerry Scandal, Whale and Ghost Printer in 
White-Friars, had plagued the Town above Ten Years with Apparitions, 
Murders, Catechisms, and the like Stuff"?  1707, "Works of Thomas Brown".

Joel

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