FAQUES, Richard ( - 1538) ‹ LBT 28384 ›
floruit 1507 (B)—1538 (B); Male
Life Events
| Event | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Death | possibly- 1538 Duff, E.G. (1905) | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Occupations (2)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Bookseller | |
| Printer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Addresses (4)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within Austin Friars (dw) | STC. vol.3, (1991) | |||
| 1511000, (1511) | St Paul's Churchyard | STC. vol.3, (1991); Duff, E.G. (1905) | - the sign of the Maiden's Head | |
| 1521, (1521) | St Paul's Churchyard | STC. vol.3, (1991); Duff, E.G. (1905) | - the sign of the ABC | |
| 1523, (1523) | Durham Rents | STC. vol.3, (1991); Duff, E.G. (1905) | - (dw) |
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Transcriptions
> |IndForenames= |Dates=</b Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. E.G.Duff.
Duff, E.G. (1905), pp.44-5
FAQUES (RICHARD), printer in London, succeeded William Faques { FAQUES, William ( - 1508) ‹ LBT 28385 › } and began to print with his material in 15°9. He was doubtless a near relation and a native of Normandy, and we may put aside as without foundation the statement of Thomas Wilson, who, in a letter to Joseph Ames, informed him that Richard Fawkes, printer, was second son of John Fawkes, of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire, and that in a pedigree he had of that family he is called printer of London. [Herbert, I, 467.] Richard Faques' first dated book was the Salus corporis salus anime of Gulielmus de Saliceto, issued in December, 1509, and in 1511 he joined with W. de Worde { WORDE, Wynkyn de ( - 1534) ‹ LBT 02699 › } and others in the production of a Sarum Missal, printed for them at Paris by Raoul Cousturier. At this period the printer always spelt his name Faques, and carried on business at the sign of the Maiden's Head in St. Paul's Churchyard. An edition of the Liber Festivalis (Lambeth] and a curious work by W. Hendred, A booke of the pylgrymage of man [Queen's CoIl., Oxf.], belong to the early time. His very handsome device, found in these books, consists of a large arrow from which is suspended a shield, supported by two unicorns. On the shield are the initials R. F. above a maiden's head, in reference to his sign. Below all is a ribbon with the name Richard Faques cut upon it. The next dated book is an edition of the Horae ad usum Sarum, printed for him at Paris by J. Bignon in 1521. [Bodl.] In it his address is given as the sign of the A. B. C., in St. Paul's Churchyard, and his name is spelt Fakes. He had also altered his device by cutting out from the ribbon the "ques" of his name and inserting in its place "kes" in type. In 1523 he printed an edition of Skelton's Goodly garlande, from the colophon of which we learn that his dwelling-house and printing office were in Durham Rents, outside Temple Bar. He had now altered his name to Faukes, and this became Fawkes in the last dated book he issued, the Myrroure of Our Lady, printed in 1530 at the request of the Lady Abbess of the monastery of Zion. On the reverse of the titlepage of this book is a woodcut with the engraver's mark, E. G., also found on a cut of St. Katherine used by Pynson { PYNSON, Richard ( - 1529) ‹ LBT 28537 › }. Though there are only five dated books with Faques' name, there are about twenty undated, but the greater number of these can, either from their subject, the spelling of the printer's name, or the state of the device, be assigned to their period. After 1530 nothing is known of Richard Faques, but in the lists of denizations is a curious entry dated 1544 relating to one Amelyne Faxe, widow, aged 70 years who had lived in England 55 years "Hath the Kinge's Magestie's proteccon of his grace gyft to Richard Faxe her husband, late deceased, to remayn and dwell within this realm, but her landlorde will not suffre her to dwell in house." [Westm. Deniz. Roll, 36 Hen. VIII.] There is a possibility that this entry may refer to the printer and if so he died in 1538 and was buried in the Parish of St.Martin in the Fields.