Richard Butt (fl. 1681–1696)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 22973

Occupations

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

BUTT, or BUTS (RICHARD), bookseller in London, (i) Bear and Orange Tree in Princes Street, near Drury Lane; (2) Princess Street in Covent Garden [probably the same as (i)]. 1681–96. Publisher of novels and cheap literature. The only reference to him in the Term Catalogues is the entry of Cervantes' The Jealous Gentleman of Estremadura. [T.C. I. 461; Esdaile, 33.] Timperley [p. 563] records that in 1683 he was publishing Scotch Memoirs, and in 1696 he published Letters written by Mrs. Manley. [T.C. II. 591; Esdaile, 266.]