William Redmayne (d. 1719; fl. 16741719)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer / Publisher
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Map Publisher
  • Map & Chart Seller
  • Playing Card Maker

William Redmayne, printer, bookseller, publisher, map publisher, map/chart seller, and playing-card maker at the Crown on Addle Hill (1674–1719).

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

REDMAYNE (WILLIAM), printer in London, Addle Hill, 1674–1719. Probably successor to John Redmayne. He did a great deal of work for the booksellers, amongst others for D. Brown, S. Coggan, S. Keble, A. Roper, and R. Smith. In 1719 he was imprisoned for printing a libel on the Government. In the Weekly Packet of April 4th–11th, 1719, was the following item of news: *Mr. Redmayne the printer is very ill of a fever in Newgate." He died on April 11th. [Nichols, Lit. Anecd.,VlIl. 368.]