William Garrett

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 26345

Occupations

  • Bookseller
A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

GARRETT (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Foster Lane, over against Goldsmiths' Hall, at the sign of the White Bear, 1622-74. Took up his freedom March 5th, 1621. [Arber, iii. 685.] Dealt largely in school books, but in March, ⁠1658/9⁠, he took over from W. Humble, q.v., all his copyrights in Speed's works. His address is given in a letter sent by T. Milbourne to the Secretary of State. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, 182 (69).] He may have been the Mr. William Garrett described as "my loveinge freind" in the will of John Bill, the King's Printer, who died in 1630. [Plomer, Wills, p. 52.] He died between June 17th, 1674, and January 16th, ⁠1674/5⁠.