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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$WOOD—WOODCOCK. behaviour, and sufficient security, he should be admitted a master printer upon any vacancy. Wood never reached that position, and the records testify that in 1624 more secret presses belonging to him were seized and destroyed. About this time Wood appears to have bought the printing materials that had belonged to Thomas Snodham, the successor of Thomas East, and to have had some dealings with Thomas Harper which became the subject of litigation in the Court of Requests and Star Chamber. [Records of the Stationers’ Company; Arber, iii. 701-4.] WOOD (JOHN), bookseller in Edinburgh, 1629-33 ; On the south side of the High Street, a little above the Cross. He is known only from the imprints of four books printed for him by the Heirs of T. Finlason, J. Wreittoun and Robert Young, between 1629 and 1633 [Aldis, Scottish Books^ 124]. WOOD (ROBERT), bookbinder in (?) Edinburgh, 1585. Is named among the debtors in the inventory of Robert Gourlaw, bookbinder in Edinburgh, who died September 6th, 1585 \_Bannatyn.e Misce/l., ii. 216]. WOOD (ROGER), patentee, 1619-29. Associated with Thomas Symcock \y.v.\ in the patent for the sole printing of all things to be printed on one side only. The patent was cancelled by decree of the Court of Chancery in 1629. WOOD (william), bookseller in London, 1598-1602 ; West End or West Door of St. Paul’s. Son of William Wood of Harfeild, Middlesex, yeoman. Apprentice to George Allen, stationer of London, for eight years from March 25th, 1589. On November 6th, 1598, he entered nine copies, including Gascoigne’s Works, Markham’s Horsmanship, Aesop’s Fables in metre and H. Constable’s Diana, The last reference to him in the Registers is on August 2nd, 1602, when two of the above nine copies were declared to belong to Edward White [Arber, iii. 131]. WOOD ( ), (?) bookseller in London, 1565-6. In this year a Master Wood entered in the Registers a sermon preached at Edinburgh by “Master Nokes” in August, 1565 [Arber, i. 309]. Nothing seems to be known of him. WOODtJOCK (ISABEL), see Woodcock (Thomas).$