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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    churchwarden, etc. He was one of the privileged persons in the University in 1624. [Bowes, Univ. Printers^ 336 ; Gray, Shops at West end of Great St. Mary^s Church.^ WILLIAMSON (ANDRO), (?) bookseller in Edinburgh. An ordinance of the Town Council of Edinburgh, October 28th, 1580, advertises that copies of Bassandyne’s Bible (1579) “ar to be sawld in the merchant buith of Andro Williamsoun on the north syde of this burgh, besyde the meill mercatt.” [Dickson and Edmond, 315]. WILLIAMSON (william), printer and bookseller in London, 1571-4; (i) The White Horse, St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1571 ; (2) Dwelling in Distaff Lane, 1572; (3) In St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1573-4; (4) At his shop adjoining St. Peter’s Church in Cornhill. One of Richard Jugge’s apprentices for nine years from February 2nd, 156^ [Arber, i. 171]. Admitted a freeman of the Company on April 23rd, 1571 [Arber, i. 447]. There are no entries of separate copies under his name in the Registers, but on January 15th, 158^, a large number of copies, including several plays, were assigned over to John Charlewood ; but it is not clear which of them belonged to William Williamson [Arber, ii. 405-6]. He appears to have succeeded Andrew Hester at the White Horse in St. Paul’s Churchyard and to have carried on both a printing and bookselling business between 1571 and 1574. WILLIS (ROBERT), senior, (?) bookseller in London, 1617-22 ; At the house of Mistress Stubbes in the alley adjoining Ludgate on the outside of the Gate. Took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on October 9th, 1617 [Arber, iii. 684]. Willis made his first book entry in the Registers on October i6th, 1617 [Arber, iii. 614]. He published for John Willis, bachelor of divinity and possibly a relative. The schoolemaster to the arte of stenography^ in 1621. Robert Willis died before December 2nd, 1622, when the above work was transferred to Henry Seile [Arber, iv. 87]. WILLIS (ROBERT), junior, (?) bookseller in London, 1637. Took up his freedom July 4th, 1636. He may have been a son of Robert Willis, senior [Arber, iii. 687]. He made his first book entry in the Registers on March nth, 163^ [Arber, iv. 375], but a few months later he transferred his