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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    ALLEN (JOHN), bookseller in Leicester, 1639. Leonard Lichfield, the Oxford printer, printed for him G. Foxley’s Groanes of tJie spirit^ 1639. [Madan, Early Oxford Press, 313.] ALLOT (MARY), bookseller in London, 1635-7; The Black Bear in St. Paul’s Churchyard. Widow of Robert Allot. She appears to have carried on the business until 1637, when she transferred her copyrights to R. Legatt and Andrew Crooke [Arber, iv. 387]. Her name is found in the imprint to a work entitled The Cou7itrymarCs Instructor, 1636 [B.M. 779. b. 9. (3)]. ALLOT (ROBERT), bookseller in London, 1625-35 ; (i) The Greyhound, St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1626; (2) The Black Bear, St. Paul’s Churchyard. Born at Criggleston in the West Riding of Yorkshire. There is no record of his apprenticeship, but he took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on November 7th, 1625 [Arber, iii. 686]. In January, 162^, he purchased from Margaret Hodgetts for ;^45, the copyrights in four works, one of them being George Sandys’ Travels, and in September of the same year the much more extensive rights of John Budge, numbering some forty-one copies, mostly theological. He was also the publisher of many plays, and had a share in the second folio of Shakespeare’s works, published in 1632. In that year an action was brought against him in the Court of Chancery by Rowland Vaughan respecting the printing, binding, and selling of The Practice of Piety in the Welsh language. Five hundred copies of the work were printed and Vaughan agreed to pay Allot ^50 for them, but he alleged that the books were not delivered in the time specified, and that the bulk of them were spoiled by wet on their arrival in Wales. Allot admitted that the books were not delivered in time, owing to the Welsh language being so hard and unusual a language to set for the press. He further said that five copies were expensively bound for presentation. [Chancery Proceedings, Chas. I, 3~53]- Robert Allot died in 1635. H!is will was dated October i8th, and proved on November loth in that year. His only child was a daughter Mary. He mentioned an uncle, Robert Allot, a Doctor in Physic. Christopher Meredith and Richard Thrale, stationers, were his brothers-in- law, the former having married his sister Elizabeth, and the latter his sister Dorothy. To his servant Andrew Crooke he left a bequest of twenty