John Williamson (fl. 1670–1678)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 31669

Occupations

  • Bookseller

John Williamson, bookseller at the Sun and Bible next the Golden Cock on London Bridge, 1670–1678; in Cannon Street, 1677.

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

WILLIAMSON (JOHN), bookseller in London, (i) Sun and Bible, or Bible, next the Golden Cock, on London Bridge, 1670–8; (2) Cannon Street, 1677. 1670–78. Began to publish in 1670, when he issued Wingate's Arithmetic. [T.C. I. 60.] He was also the publisher of Hans Bloome's Description of . . . . Architecture in 1674. [T.C. I. 166.] He was succeeded at the house on London Bridge by Stephen Foster in 1679. The Cannon Street address appears with the other on one imprint of 1677. [T.C. I. 279.]