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Floruit: 1548–1612
floruit 1548 (D)—1612 (D); Male
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- aet.96 1634 |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Addresses (3)
Events (1)
| Date |
Event type |
Description
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| 3 May 1568 |
Freed - Brother |
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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
/ SKILDERS / PAINTER /PITTORE,
said to be aet. 96 on death
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.150
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.237-8
SCHILDERS, SHELDERS, SKILDERS, alias PAINTER or PITTORE (RICHARD), printer in London, 1568-? 1579, and at Middelburg, 1580-1618: London, (1) St. Michael's Bassieshaw Ward; (2) St. Martin's Farringdon Without. A native of Enghien in Hennegan [" Engye in Hennego," Returns of Aliens, 11. 36]. Admitted brother of the Stationers' Company May 3rd, 1568 [Arber, i. 366]. In the Returns of Aliens, (1571) (ii. 36) it is said that he "came to England at Lent last was iiij yeres, and lyveth as servaunte by pryntinge with Thomas East { EAST, Thomas (1540 - 1608) ‹ LBT 07395 › } stacyoner." In 1575 he printed a Dutch work, entitled Den Spieghel des Houwelicks. No place of printing is indicated on the title, but the book was probably printed in England. On November 24th, 1578, R. Skilders "Dutchman" had a press and type, and was a compositor, and was printing a book for Hans Stell { STELL, John ‹ LBT 30756 › }. He was stopped and made to transfer the book to Thomas Dawson { DAWSON, Thomas ( - 1620) ‹ LBT 07918 › }, printer, for whom he worked for wages till it was complete. The book has been conjectured to be Philip van Marnix' Bee Hive of the Romish Church [Arber, ii. 882; v. iii]. Soon after this date he left England and settled down at Middelburg, where he opened the first press known to have been established in the town. His first book, printed in 1580, was in Dutch. In 1582 he printed Robert Browne's Book which showeth the life of all true Christians, 1582 [Sayle, p. 1452], in the imprint of which he used the name of "Painter." More than fifty works in English are attributed to his press, but in many of them, including apparently almost all of those published between 1602 and 1614. his name does not appear. An Italian Historia de la morte de ... Giovanna Graia, 1607, has, however, the imprint "Stampato appresso Richardo Pittore" [Hazlitt, II. 694]. The books consist for the most part of works by D. Fenner, H. Broughton, H. Jacob, and other Puritan divines, but include an edition of John Wheeler's interesting Treatise of Commerce, 1601, a defence of the policy of the Merchant Adventurers' Company. The last which bear Schilders' imprint are dated 1616. In 1618, when he was about eighty years of age, he was presented with a pension. He is said to have died in 1634 at the age of ninety-six. [Nieuwsblad von den Boekhandel no. 97, December 3rd, 1872; Worman, Alien Members of the Book-trade, 58-9; Sayle, pp. 1452-9; Paper read by J. Dover Wilson before th Bibliographical Society, October 17th, 1910.]