Humphrey Robinson
Humphrey Robinson (died 13 November 1670) was a prominent London publisher and bookseller of the middle seventeenth century.
Robinson was the son of a Bernard Robinson, a clerk from
With Moseley
Robinson is most noted for publishing two collections of plays in
And without
Operating without Moseley, Robinson published
Robinson partnered with stationers other than Moseley on various projects. In one venture important in his own era, he was involved in the
Later career
Robinson served as a Warden of the Stationers Company in 1653, and as the guild's Master in both 1661 and 1667; in the later year, he was responsible for rebuilding the guildhall after the Great Fire of London (1666). In the mid-1650s, during the Commonwealth era, Robinson maintained an important correspondence with Joseph Williamson, who later became Secretary of State; their letters are preserved in the State Papers,[4] and provide abundant data on the role Robinson played as a leading publisher of the period. (Williamson, at this early point in his career, regularly travelled to France as a tutor of young aristocrats; he simultaneously worked as Robinson's agent and business contact with French publishers.)
At his death he was survived by two children, a son, Humphrey, and a daughter, Grace. At the time of the father's death, the son was a fellow of
See also
References
- ^ Magrath, John Richard, ed. The Flemings in Oxford: Being Document Selected from the Rydal Papers. Oxford, Oxford Historical Society/Clarendon Press, 1904; Vol. 1, pp. 553-4.
- ^ Plomer Henry Robert. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. London, The Bibliographival Society/Blades, East & Blades, 1907; p. 155.
- ^ Magrath, Vol. 1, p. 100 and ff.
- ^ Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1655–58.
- ^ Furdell, Elizabeth Jane. Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England. Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2002; p. 116.