Humphrey Robinson

Humphrey Robinson (died 13 November 1670) was a prominent London publisher and bookseller of the middle seventeenth century.

Robinson was the son of a Bernard Robinson, a clerk from Carlisle; other members of his family were important clergymen and church office-holders.[1] Humphrey Robinson became a "freeman" (a full member) of the Stationers Company on 30 June 1623. He was active as an independent bookseller in the years 1624–70. Based in his shop at the sign of the Three Pigeons in St. Paul's Churchyard, he was "one of the largest and most important booksellers of this period."[2]

  1. ^ Magrath, John Richard, ed. The Flemings in Oxford: Being Document Selected from the Rydal Papers. Oxford, Oxford Historical Society/Clarendon Press, 1904; Vol. 1, pp. 553-4.
  2. ^ Plomer Henry Robert. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. London, The Bibliographival Society/Blades, East & Blades, 1907; p. 155.