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

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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$WILSON (ROBERT), bookseller in London, 1610-? 1639; (i) Holborn ; (2) Gray’s Inn Gate ; (3) Fleet Street or Chancery Lane. Son of Robert Wilson of Egginton, co. Derby, yeoman. Apprentice to John Smith, stationer of London, for nine years from June 24th, 1600, and took up his freedom in the Company on May 2nd, 1609 [Arber, ii. 248 ; hi. 683]. Robert Wilson made his first book entry in the Registers on November 9th, 1610, and ten days later John Bache assigned to him five copies [Arber, iii. 448, 449]. He published a few plays including L. Barrey’s Rafn Alley and Beaumont and Fletcher’s Scornful Ladie^ 1639* 1628 his name is mentioned in a list of second-hand booksellers who were ordered to submit catalogues of their books to the Archbishop of Canterbury \Dom. State Papers^ Chas. /, vol. 117 (9)]. His widow Anne appears to have carried on the business for a short time after his death [Arber, iv. 512]. WILSON (STEPHEN), bookseller and bookbinder in Oxford, 1590-1. Admitted bookseller on November 27th, 1590. Described as a bookbinder in 1591, when he took an apprentice. [Clark, Register^ ii. i. 321, 342.] WILSON (william), see Plomer, Dictionary. WINDER or WINDSOR (GEORGE), bookseller in London, 1622-8; St. Dunstan’s Churchyard. This stationer took up his freedom in the Company on July I St, 1622, and made his first entry in the Registers on September 24th in the same year [Arber, iii. 685 ; iv. 81]. George Winder published chiefly theological books. On May 21st, 1628, he assigned two of his copyrights to Miles Flesher or Fletcher, after which nothing more is heard of him [Arber, iv. 197]. Richard Windsor in his will proved on February 19th, 1623, mentions his “nephew” George Windsor, “citizen & stationer of London,” who was probably identical with the subject of this notice [P.C.C., II, Swann]. WINDET (JOHN), printer in London, 1584-1611; (i) The White Bear in Addling St. nigh Baynard’s Castle; (2) The Cross Keys on St. Paul’s Wharf, Thames St. On April 13th, 1579, John Allde, the printer, presented for his freedom an apprentice who is entered in the Registers as John Wyndyert, and who may be identical with John Windet [Arber, ii. 680]. If so, he served some years as a journeyman, as it was not until 1584 that he began to print on his own account. In that year he printed$