William Turner

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1960

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) TURNER (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Rose and Crown, without Temple-Bar; (2) White Horse, without Temple Bar; (3) Angel at Lincoln's Inn Back Gate. 1696–1705. In partnership with F. Mills. Their names are found in 1696 in the imprint to the English translation of Le Maire's Voyages to the Canary Islands. In 1703 he published two plays, The Stolen Heiress and Cibber's She wou'd and She wou'd not. [T.C. III. 336.] In 1705 Dr. Samuel Cobb's poem on the Duke of Marlborough's victories, entitled Honour Retrieved, was published by Turner as well as several plays. His last entry in the Term Catalogues was a comedy called the Basset Table, in 1705. [T.C. III. 482.] He was at the Angel by 1703.