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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    VVOODNOTE—WREITTOUN. WOODNOTE (ROBERT), bookseller in London, ? 1602-23. This stationer, whose name occurs to a book entry in company with that of John Haviland, on February ist, i62?j [Arber, iv. 90], is possibly identical with Robert Woodnet, son of Thomas Woodnet, citizen and merchant tailor of London, who was apprentice to Robert Barker for seven years from September 30th, 1594, and took up his freedom on January i8th, 160.^ [Arber, ii. 196, 731]. WOODROFFE (RICHARD), bookseller in London, 1614-23 ; The Golden Key near the Great North Door, St. Paul’s Churchyard. Took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers, August ist, 1614 [Arber, iii. 684]. Made his first book entry in the Registers on August loth, 1614 [Arber, iii. 552]. He dealt chiefly in theological books; but towards the end of the year 1622 he assigned most of his copyrights to Timothy Barlow [Arber, iv. 88, 89]. WOUW (WIDOW AND HEIRS OF HILLEBRANT JACOBS VAN), printers at the Hague, 1631. In this year they printed Laws and Ordinances touchhig military disciplme [in the Netherlands] . . . established the ij of August, [B.M., p. 1142]. Ledeboer states that van Wouw printed 1588-1629, and his widow in 1630, and under another heading describes his widow and heirs as printing from 1626 to 1657. [Ledeboer, A.L., 195, De Boekdrukkers, 179.] WRAY (henry), stationer at Cambridge, 1617-28; Great St. Mary’s. Resided in Great St. Mary’s parish and paid church rate from 1617 [Foster’s Churchwardens' Accounts], He is in a list of privileged persons in the University, 1624 [Bowes, 336]. His will, dated 1628, is at Peterborough. His widow continued to live in the parish [Foster]. WREITTOUN (JOHN), printer in Edinburgh, (?) 1621-40. Hardly anything is known of the personal history of this printer, but he may have been the John Wreittoun who, with his brother Daniel, “ sones to umquhile Allexander Wreittoun, minister at Kilmarnok ” [ ? Kilwinning], were witnesses to Andro Hart’s will on December 21st, 1621. Between 1624 and 1636 he produced upwards of sixty books. His name has not been found in any imprint after the latter year, but an edition of the Protestation made by the Covenanters at Edinburgh on July 4th, 1638, was printed in