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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$WRIGHT—WYON. He dealt largely in ballads, broadsides, news books and ephemeral literature. He was one of those who violently opposed the monopolies, and was imprisoned in the Counter for his share in issuing privileged books. He subsequently made his submission and with Edward White, John Wolf and others was nominated one of the assigns of the patent belonging to Richard Day [Arber, ii. 790-3]. One of William Wright’s apprentices was Cuthbert Burby, who at his death in 1607 bequeathed to William Wright, “which was my master,” the sum of eight pounds [Plomer, lVt7/s, p. 41]. WRIGHT (william), junior, bookseller in London, 1613 ; The Harrow on Snow Hill. On April 12th and 29th, 1613, he entered several copies in the Registers [xArber, hi. 519, 522]. WYER (NICHOLAS), se£ Duff, Ceyttury. WYER (ROBERT), see Duff, Centiny. WYKES or WEKES (HENRY), printer in London, 1557-69 ; The Oliphaunt, or Black Elephant, in Fleet Street. He was an apprentice of Thomas Berthelet, being presented on October 15th, 1556 [Arber, i. 41], but did not become free until August 15th, 1565 [Arber, i. 317]. His name is however found in books as early as 1557, in which year he printed an edition of The Instruction of a Christian IVoman, by L. Vives. In 1564 he was fined for printing two books without licence [Arber, i. 274]. His first entry in the Registers w^as in 1565-6 [Arber, i. 308], referred to Adlington’s translation of Apuleius, The Golden Ass, which he printed in 1566. His last entries in the Registers were in the year 1568-9 [Arber, i. 378, 381], and his last dated publications in 1569. WYLCOCKS (RICHARD), bookseller in Oxford, 1617. Mentioned in 1617 [Clark, Register, ii. i. 321 bis\ WYON (MARC), printer at Douai, 1609-30 ; At the Golden Phoenix. His only work in English seems to have been Edmond Stratford’s Disputatio?i of the Church wherem the old religion is ?naintained, 1629 [Sayle, p. 1485]. His device was a shield with M and W and a Phoenix; the motto Do Flammae esse suum, Flanma dat esse ?neum, or sometimes Morieris revivisco. [Duthillceul, pp. 189-95, 408-9.]$