Richard Lowndes

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Names

  • Richard Lowndes
  • Richard Lownes

Richard Lowndes, bookseller 1640–1675; adjoining Ludgate on Ludgate Hill; at the White Lyon in St. Paul's Churchyard; at the White Lyon, Duck Lane near West Smithfield.

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

LOWNDES (RICHARD), bookseller in London, (1) Adjoyning to Ludgate [on Ludgate Hill]; (2) White Lyon in St. Paul's Churchyard; (3) White Lyon, Duck Lane near West Smithfield. [Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 557.] 1640–75. Took up his freedom September 26th, 1639 [Arber, iii. 688.] Dealt in miscellaneous literature. Amongst his publications was Francis Quarles' Barnabas and Boanerges. 1644.