Edward Owen (d. 1783; fl. 17321770)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Stationer

Edward Owen, printer and stationer, before 1732–1770), at Amen Corner/Warwick Lane; in Hand Court, Holborn.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

OWEN (EDWARD), printer in London: (1) Amen Corner, or Warwick Lane, (?)1732; (2) near Chancery Lane, Holborn, 1743–70. One of the printers of the London Gazette. In partnership with T. Harrison (q.v.). For T. Astley, the publisher, he printed in 1732, Full Instructions for Country Gentlemen and The Gentleman's Pocket Farrier. In 1755 Samuel Birt (q.v.) left him a legacy of ten pounds. [P.C.C. 304, Paul.] Amongst his publications for 17434 was Memoirs of the first settlement of the Island of Barbados, and other Carribee Islands, which bore the imprint "for E. Owen, near Chancery Lane, Holborn". He printed numerous pamphlets that are now scarce, such as A Definition of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1749; Two memorials of the Abbé de la Ville, 1747. In 1751 he printed a tract by Howard for Dodsley. [Straus.]