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A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland c (^^ /^.N-^>^^ \>S' ^' A\ ^ i Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofprinOOplomiala A DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WHO WERE AT WORK IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND FROM 1668 TO 1725. A DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WHO WERE AT WORK IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND FROM 1668 TO 1725 BY HENRY R. PLOMER. WITH THE HELP OF H. G. ALDIS, E. R. McC. DIX, G. J. GRAY, AND R. B. McKERROW. EDITED BY ARUNDELL ESDAILE. PRINTED FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1922. LIBUARY UMVERSITY OF CALIFORMA SANTA BARBARA INTRODUCTION. THREE important events in the history of the book-trade marked the period covered by this Dictionary : 1. The expiration of the Licensing Act of 1662 in 1695. 2. The paper and pamphlet duties of 1696 and 1713. 3. The Copyright Act of 1709. The result of the first was that during the closing years of the seventeenth century printing presses were estabHshed in many provincial towns, Bristol and Exeter in the West, Chester, York, Newcastle, and Gateshead in the North, Norwich and Ipswich in the East, and with every year their numbers increased until by 1725 all the important towns in the kingdom had their own printers. Almost the first thing these printers did, was to establish a local newspaper, which, though Uttle else than mirrors of the London press, and containing scanty local news beyond a few advertisements and the trials of criminals at the local assizes, served the useful purpose of broadening the outlook of the people and keeping them in touch with the outside world. The first of the paper duties was imposed by the 8-9 William III, c. 7, called " An Act for granting to his Majesty several duties upon paper, vellum and parchment, to encourage the bringing of plate and hammered money into the Mints to be coined ". It imposed upon all paper, parchment, and books imported an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent., a similar duty of 20 per cent, on paper or parchment made, while all stock-in-trade was to pay 17^ per cent. In 1711 another Act was passed (10 Anne, c. 18) combining duties on paper with a stamp duty on pamphlets and newspapers. The duties on paper took the form of a tax per ream which varied in the case of imported paper from 15. to 165. per ream, and in the case of British-made paper from 4^. to 15. 6d. per ream. Books, prints, and maps imported were charged 30 per cent, ad REFERENCES ABBREVIATED IN THE TEXT. AUnutt. English Provincial Presses. By W. H. AUnutt. Ft. 3 (Bibliographica, ii. 376-308). C. J. Commons' Journals. C.P.R. Common Plea Rolls (Record Office). Cooke. Bibliotheca Cestriensis. By John H. Cooke. 1904. Creswell. Collections towards the History of Printing in Nottinghamshire. By S. F. Creswell. 1863. Davies. A Memoir of the York Press. By Robert Davies. r868. Dictionary, 1641-67. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry R. Plomer. Bibliographical Society. 1907. Dredge. Devon Booksellers and Printers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By J. I. Dredge. 3 pts. 1885-7. Dunton. The Life and Errors of John Dunton (written 1703, printed 1705) edited, with other tracts by him, by J Nichols. 1818. Gent. The Life of Thomas Gent, written by himself. 1832. Heame. Remarks and Collections of Thomas Heame. 1705-32. 10 vols. Oxford Historical Society, 1885-1915. Hyett and Bazeley. The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. By F. A. Hyett and W. Bazeley. 5 vols. 1895-1915. Lawler. Book Auctions in England in the seventeenth century. 1676-1700. By J. Lawler. 1898. List of Printing Houses in London in 1675. State Papers Domestic. Charles II, 369 (97). Liverpool Pr. & Doc. Liverpool Free Public Library. Liverpool Prints and Documents. 1908. pp. 333 sq. Madan. A Chart of Oxford Printing. Bibliographical Society. 1904. Negus. A List of London printers, classified by their political parties, drawn up by Samuel Negus in 1724. Printed in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, i. 288-312. Reed. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries. By T. B. Reed. 1887. Stationers Company Records. (Unprinted.) Stat. Reg. (Roxb.). A Transcript of Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers from 1640 to 1708. [Presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Briscoe Eyre.] 3 vols. 1913-14. T.C. The Term Catalogues, 1 668-1 71 1. Edited by E. Arber. 3 vols. 1903-6. Times Handlist. The Times Tercentenary Handlist of English and Welsh Newspapers, &c. 1930. xii REFERENCES. Timperley, A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. By C. H. Timperley. 1839. Second edition 1842. The references serve for both editions. Wallis. A Sketch of the Early History of the Printing Press in Derbyshire. By Alfred Wallis. (Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, III, 137, &c,) 1881. Watson. History of the Art of Printing. By James Watson. 1713. Welford. Early Newcastle Typography. By Richard Welford. (Archaeologia Aeliana, 3rd series, III.) 1906. Wood. The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, ed. A. C. Clark. Oxford Historical Society. 5 vols. 1889-92. A DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WHO WERE AT WORK IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND FROM 1668 TO 1725 A. (t.), bookseller in Oxford, 1682. [Madan, p. 30.] ABINGTON, or ABBINGTON (william), bookseller in London, (i) Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls ; (2) Three Silkworms, near the Wonder Tavern, Ludgate Street. 1679-1705. Succeeded Elizabeth Calvert at the first address. First entry in T.C, Trinity, 1679 [l. 359]. Dunton calls him ** beauish Abington ". He published in 1683 nos. i and 2 of Scotch Memoirs, by way of dialogue betweejt John and Elymas. [Timperley, p. 565.] ABREE (jAMEs), printer and bookseller at Canterbury. Over against the Three Tuns, (a) Castle Street ; {b) St. Margaret's Parish. 1717-68. Settled at Canterbury in 1717, and began by printing a sheet, containing the names of the mayor, aldermen and common council, who had encouraged the revival of printing in the city. On October 23rd, 17 17, appeared the first number of a newspaper called The Kentish Post or, The Canterbury News Letter. The early numbers were printed for the proprietors by Thomas Reeve, in quarto form with a cover. It was afterwards printed by James Abree in partnership with W. Aylett and then by Abree alone, and it then took the ordinary form of a small folio, and appeared twice a week. The Kentish news in this sheet was confined to a few inches of space on the last page, and was of very little interest ; but many Kentish advertisements were inserted. In 17 18 Abree printed Thomas Hardres's Panegyrical Poem on the Fair and Celebrated Beauties in and about the City of Canterbury, iolio ; in 1 726-7 several quarto pamphlets in a quarrel between doctors Packe and Grey of 2 ABREE—ADAMSON. Canterbury, and in it40 Poems on Several Occasions, by an anonymous lady. Abree was also a bookseller and stationer, and sold wall papers and patent medicines. He circulated by his chapmen many books published in weekly or monthly parts, by London publishers. About 1764 he took into partnership George Kirkby, the son of a Canterbury clergyman, in favour of whom he retired in 1768. Kirkby then dropped the pubhcation of the Kentish Post, and entered into partnership with another Canterbury printer, James Simmons, who was then publishing a rival sheet, called The Kentish Gazette, or Canterbury Chronicle. James Abree died on August 20th, 1768, aged 77, administration of his effects being granted to his daughter. ACTON (valentine), bookseller in London. Holy Lamb, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1678. T. James printed for him J. Nye's A Display of Divine Heraldry. [T.C. I. 319.] ADAMS (JOHN), bookseller at Oxford, 1673. <^^^ Dictionary, 1641-67. Still in business in 1673, when he published Holyday's edition of Juvenal. [T.C. I. 135.] ADAMS (ROGER), printer at Manchester and Chester, Manchester : At the lower end of Smithy-Door. 1719-33. Printer and publisher of the first Manchester newspaper, the Manchester Weekly Journal, first issued in January 17 19. Believed to have come from Chester, whither he returned and conducted The Chester Courant from 1730 until his death. During his stay in Manchester he reprinted A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights and Gentlemen that have com- pounded for their estates, first printed by Thomas Dring in 1655. This has an introduction signed by the printer and also the advertisement of another reprint. The Ordinance of Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous ministers. ADAMS (WILLIAM), junior, printer in Edinburgh, (i) opposite to the Trone- Church, 1717 ; (2) in Carubber's Close, 1720. 1717-25. Adams printed T/ic Caledonian Mercury from its begirming in April 1720 to the end of 1723. ADAMSON (jAMEs), bookseller in London, Angel and Crown, St. Paul's Church- yard, 1686-94. First heard of in 1686, when he sold the edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae, published by Tooke and Sawbridge. In the same year he pub- lished a Latin edition of St. Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians. \T.C. II. 179.] From this time his name is of frequent occurrence in the Term Catalogues. ADDERTON—ALLDRIDGE. 3 Amongst other works of note he had a share in Thevenot's Travels, 1687 ; the Latin edition of The Life of Cardinal Pole, 1690 ; and Geo. Ashwell's De Socino el Socinianismo dissertalio, 1692. His last book-entry occurs in Michaelmas 1694. [T.C.
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