Mary Wright (fl. 16581663)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 30361

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Mary Wright, bookseller at the King's Head in the Old Bailey, 1658–1663.

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

WRIGHT (M.), printer (?) in London; Kings Head in the Old Bailey, 1658–62. This name, in company with that of Robert Ibbotson, q.v., is found on the imprint to Thomas Gouge's Christian Directions, 1661. [Ames Collection, 3019.] Hazlitt has several entries under it [Gray's Index to Hazlitt, p. 835.] It may apply to another son of John Wright, senior, q.v.