A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow.

Date:
1910
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Credit: A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WILDGOOSE—WILKES. WILDGOOSE (ANTHONY), printer in London, 1636-40. Took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers, November 7th, 1636 [Arber, iii. 688]. In 1640 he was plaintiff in an action in the Court of Requests against William White of Sunderland [Court of Requests, 15th Chas. I, Bundle 13]. WILDGOOSE (william), bookseller and bookbinder in Oxford, 1617-26. Admitted a bookseller on June loth, 1617 [Clark, Register^ ii. i. 321]. Reprimanded for setting up as a bookseller without the Vice Chancellor’s leave [Clark, id. 321]. Mr. Gibson refers to another William Wildgoose “famulus priv. 1604 aet. 34” [Clark, Register^ ii. i. 399; Gibson, Oxford Wills., p. 52]. He was binder to the Bodleian Library from 1621 to 1626, and amongst the books bound by him was the first folio Shakespeare [Gibson, Oxford Bindings, pp. 40, 48, 51, 57, 58, 60; copy of First Folio in Bodleian Lib.]. In 1640 there was an Anthony Wildgoose working as a printer in London, who was perhaps a descendant from the above William [Court of Requests, 15 Chas. I]. WILFORDE (JAMES), printer in London, 1571-85; Aldersgate ward and Cripplegate ward. This printer seems to be distinct from the James Woelfaert noted by Mr. Duff in his Cefitury. They both came from Holland, and both had wives named Catherine, but whereas Woelfaert is said to have been resident in England for fourteen years in 1571, Wilforde is said to have been here only one and a half years [Worman, Alien Members, p. 71]. WILKES (OLIVER), bookseller and bookbinder in London, 1564-88. Made free of the Company of Stationers on October 3rd, 1564, and admitted into the Livery in 1582 [Arber, i. 279, 493]. His only book entry occurs in the Registers on February nth, 157!^ [Arber, ii. 308]. Oliver Wilkes bound books as well as selling them ; in 1582 he was paid five shillings for binding a Bible for the King’s Bench, and again in 1588 a similar sum for binding a Chrotiicle for a pursuivant. He died before August 8th in that year, when his will, dated a fortnight earlier, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. He desired to be buried in the church of St. Faith’s under St. Paul’s, and he left a sum of six and eightpence to the Company of Stationers [P.C.C., 53, Rutland],