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15001600170018001900
Floruit: 1567–1618
floruit 1567 (A)—1618 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
? 1618 |
O.D.N.B.
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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| bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Had Apprentice(s): (7)
Events (17)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Martha KNIGHT { None, None ‹ LBT 03239 › }; secondly, of Alice [CHARLEWOOD]
ODNB - article by David Kathman
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.145-6
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.229
ROBERTS (JAMES), bookseller and printer in London, 1569-1615; (1) Love and Death, Fleet Street; (2) Adjoining the little Conduit in Cheapside; (3) Barbican. Admitted a freeman of the Company of Stationers on June 27th, 1564, James Roberts began as a publisher of ballads. On December 3rd, 1588, a patent was granted to him and to Richard Watkins { WATKYNS, Richard ( - 1599) ‹ LBT 08278 › } of the exclusive privilege of printing all almanacs and prognostications [Pat. .Roll, 31 Eliz. pt. 10]. In 1593 he married the widow { CHARLEWOOD, Alice (mar. ROBERTS) ‹ LBT 03094 › } of John Charlewood { CHARLEWOOD, John ( - 1593) ‹ LBT 07132 › } generally known as the Earl of Arundell's man, who had been in business as a printer at the Half Eagle and Key in the Barbican since 1567, and who died early in that year. Charlewood's copyrights were numerous and the printing house was well furnished with type blocks and devices. James Roberts' chief claim to notice is as a printer of Shakespeare quartos. In 1600 he printed the first quarto of Titus Andronicus, and in 1604 the second quarto of Hamlet. As to the quartos of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice which bear his imprint and the date 1600, but which were probably printed in 1619, see the Library, April, 1908, p. 113, etc. In or about 1608, James Roberts sold the business to William Jaggard { JAGGARD, William ( - 1623) ‹ LBT 07351 › }. [Library, April, 1906, pp. 160-1.]
