Benjamin Alsop

Benjamin Alsop (b. c.1658, d. in or before 1703) was a bookseller, the son of Vincent Alsop (d. 1703), Presbyterian minister at Geddington and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire.  In 1672 Alsop was apprenticed to Nathaniel Ponder, a nonconformist bookseller in London. Alsop began his own business in 1679, publishing numerous nonconformist divines, including Bunyan’s The Holy War (1682) and four other works by Bunyan, as well as works by Baxter, Owen, Nehemiah Coxe, Thomas Gouge, and Thomas Manton. He also published a work by an anonymous woman writer, Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony (1683). He joined Monmouth’s army against James II and was forced to flee England after its failure, then was pardoned, but little is known of him after that.