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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$WREITTOUN—WRIGHT. his types. In 1634 he printed Dickson’s Trite Christian Love^ for John Wilson, the Glasgow bookseller; and his edition of Venus and Adonis, 1627, is notable as being the only work of Shakespeare printed in Scotland before the eighteenth century. The characteristic ornaments used in his books are a pelican in her piety, and the Scottish arms crowned. In his first imprint his “ buith ” is stated to be “ at the Nether-Bowe,” but in 1628 and 1635 he dates from “his shop a little beneath the Salt Trone probably these two addresses refer to one and the same place. Wreittoun died February 13th, 1640, and was survived by his wife, Margaret Kene, who was possibly a relative of A. Hart’s second wife. His inventory is printed in the Bannatyne Miscelia?iy. [Aldis, Scottish Books, 124; Bann. Afisc., ii. 249, 255 ; Hew Scott’s Basti, ii. 181.] WRENCH (william), printer in Oxford, 1617-18. Appointed printer to the University in company with John Lichfield in 1617. His career was a short one as he only held the office until January 19th, i6ig. [Madan, Oxford Press, 276, 297, cf. Arber, iii. 648.] WRENCH (william), (?) printer or bookseller in London, 1624. Mentioned by John Gee in his Foot out of the snare, 1624, as a dealer in or disperser of Popish books. There was a William Wrench, a printer, mentioned by William Jones in his information against Bishop Bancroft in 1640 \Library, April, 1907, pp. 165, 174] ; there was a William Wrench, a printer, at Oxford in 1617 ; and there was a William Wrench, a bookbinder in London, about the same time, who is described in a Chancery suit of the year 1616 as binding books for the booksellers Bonham Norton, John Norton and John Bill. [Chan. Proc., Jas. I, B 35. 10.] WRIGHT (ABIGAIL), see Wright (Cuthbert). WRIGHT (CUTHBERT), bookseller in London, 1613-39. Son of Thomas Wright of Buckbrook, co. Northampton, yeoman. Apprentice to Felix Kingston, stationer of London, for eight years from June 24th, 1603 [Arber, ii. 272]. Took up his freedom on November 5th, 1610 [Arber, iii. 683]. Cuthbert Wright made his first entry in the Registers on August nth, 1613 [Arber, iii. 531]. He appears to have been one of the partners in the Ballad Stock of the Company, as on December 14th, 1624, in$