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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    rights in the book, Richard Norwood’s Fundamental problems in the practice of Navigation^ to George Hurlocke [Arber, iv. 386]. It seems doubtful whether he was in business at all. WILLOUGHBYE (JOHN), (?) book importer, 1574. Arrested for importing “erroneous” books [Acts of the Privy Council^ New Ser., viii. 331 (cf p. 118)]. WILMOT (John), bookseller in Oxford, see Plomer, Dictionary. WILNE (GEORGE), bookseller in London, 1638-9. Took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers, October i6th, 1637 [Arber, iii. 688]. On March 6th, 163^, he entered in the Registers John Hodge’s Viaticum animae^ and again on August loth, 1638, William Park’s The rose and the lilley [Arber, iv. 410, 428]. The last named was a series of sermons preached at Ashby de la Zouch. WILSON (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller and bookbinder in London, 1603-16. Son of Ralph Wilson of Barmeby Moor, co. Nottingham, joiner. Apprentice to Francis Henson, stationer of London, for seven years from February 2nd, 1565, and became a freeman of the Company on July ist, 1602 [Arber, ii. 200, 733]. Fie made his only book entry, a (?) translation of the Premiere Semaine of Du Bartas, on July 2nd, 1603 [Arber, iii. 37]. In 1616 he is mentioned in a suit in Chancery as binding books for the booksellers Bonham Norton, John Norton and John Bill. [Chan. Proc., Jas. I, B. 35. 10.] WILSON (JOHN), stationer in London, i6i6. A stationer of this name is recorded in the Registers as entering a book on January 27th, 161^ [Arber, iii. 582], but nothing further is known about him. WILSON (JOHN), bookseller in Glasgow, 1634-5. An edition of True Christian Love by David Dickson was printed by John Wreittoun of Edinburgh with the following imprint: “Printed by I. W. for lohn Wilson and are to be sould at his shop in Glasgow. 1634.” This is the earliest known imprint in which Glasgow appears. In the following year Ninian Campbell’s Treatise upon death was printed for Wilson by Robert Young. Nothing further is known of his career. [Aldis, Scottish Books., 124.]