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Notes
On Norton's character, see J. T. Adams' article on him in the DAB. Donald Wing, Short-Title Catalogue . . . 1641-1700 (1945-1951), lists An Answer among Norton's other works (see II, 493: N1314). The comment about Bond appears on p. 6 of An Answer.
Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts . . . Collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661 (1908), and Samuel Halkett and John Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature (1926-1934)—s.v. "An Answer."
Henry Plomer states that Norton was active until 1645 (see A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667—1907; rptd., 1968—p. 138). C. William Miller, on the other hand, states that Norton died "within a year or so" of 1639—see "A London Ornament Stock: 1598-1683," in Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 133.
See Tatham, (*)4v, 5r, 8r, 8v; A1r, 2r, 3r; Fabricius, (*)2r; Bernard, A3r. In stating that the type ornaments in An Answer are of "exactly the same kind" as those used in these other books, I mean that they coincide in pattern, size, and usage—I have not, however, been able to discover whether any of those in An Answer were printed from the exact same pieces of type as those in other books known to have been produced by Norton's press.
Miller's T1 and T4 are initials of the same design and size, but they clearly were printed from two different pieces of type; they appear among several other illustrations in the unnumbered section inserted between pp. 136 and 137 in the article indicated in note 3 above. Miller's study deals with a group of ornaments and initials that descended from Thomas Judson (who began printing in 1586) through Norton and others to Robert White (who died in 1678). It is a good piece of bibliographical scholarship, but its identification of the books in which the ornaments and letters illustrated can be found is sometimes confusing: Miller says, for example, that the initial "T" in Barlow's book was printed from the piece of type represented by T4, but it and the initial in An Answer clearly were printed from the piece represented by T1.
R. B. McKerrow, Printers' and Publishers' Devices in England and Scotland, 1485-1640 (1913), reproduces two different states of the William Norton rebus (see illustrations 174 and 175). The books with the following STC numbers all use the device: 4422, 5478, 5480, 5481 (printed by Bonham Norton), 13784, 15016.
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