Robert Vincent (fl. 1691–1723)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 2090

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Robert Vincent, bookseller (1691–) in Clifford's Inn Lane, Fleet Street (1691–?); at the Crown and Scepter across from Fetter Lane, Fleet Street (?–1727); at the Crown and Sceptre in Ludgate Street (1727–). An advertisement 25 February 1727 reads:

Blank Warrants to the Assessors and Collectors of the Land Tax for the Service of the Year 1727, are printed as usual, for Robert Vincent and Son, at the Crown and Scepter over-against Fetter-Lane near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet.

London Gazette, 21–25 February 1727

An advertisement of April 1728 announces the removal of the shop to Ludgate Street:

Robert Vincent and Son, / Stationers, / Are Remov'd from the Crown and Sceptre, in Fleetstreet, to the Crown and Sceptre in Ludgate-street, near the West End of St. Paul's: Where Gentlemen and others may be supplied (as usual) with Warrants for the Land-Tax and Highways; all Sorts of Warrants relating to Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, &c. and all other Stationary Wares.

Daily Journal, 29 April 1728

 

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

VINCENT (ROBERT), bookseller in London, Clifford's Inn Lane, Fleet Street, 1691–1713. Hazlitt records a book as published by Vincent in 1691. [Haz. III. 160.] In 1693 he published Wright's comedy, The Female Virtuosos. He was also a publisher of law-books. In 1713 his name occurs in the list of contributors to the Bowyer fund.

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

VINCENT, ROBERT. He had apparently set up at Clifford's Inn Lane, Fleet Street, in 1691. He is last heard of in 1712, when he subscribed to the Bowyer relief fund.

—Frederick T. Wood, 17 October 1931