Timothy Goodwin (fl. 1683–1720)
Timothy Goodwin, bookseller and publisher at the Maiden Head, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, renamed the Queens' Head, 1683–1720.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
GOODWIN (TIMOTHY), bookseller in London, (i) Maiden-Head, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street; (2) Queens' Head, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street. 1683–1720. This eminent bookseller began publishing in Mich. 1683. [T.C. n. 44.] Dunton [p. 284] has this character of him: "He is esteemed a very honest man; and what he engages upon is either very useful or very curious. Mr. William Rogers, Mr. Harris, and myself were once partners with him in publishing some Dying Speeches, and I observed a more than ordinary openness and justness in his dealings ... He is Dr. Sherlock's bookseller, and printed Abp. Tillotson's Works, in conjunction with Mr. Ailmer." It was Goodwin who started the subscription for the relief of William Bowyer the elder, heading the list of subscriptions with ten guineas. [Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I. 60.] In 1694 he changed his sign to the Queens' Head. He died in 1720. [Timperley, p. 622.] The following publications by Goodwin are not recorded in the Term Catalogues: A true copy of a Paper written by Capt. Thomas Walcot at Newgate, 1683 [B.M. T. 100* (189)]; The Speech of Sir George Pudsey, 1685. [B.M. T. 100* (175).]