Randal Taylor (d. 1689; fl. 1650 – ca. 1694)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Map & Chart Seller

Dates

  • Apprenticeship: 1640

Names

  • Randal Taylor
  • Randolph Taylor
  • Randal Tayler
  • Randolph Tayler
  • Randall Tayler
  • Randel Taylor
  • Randal Tayler
  • Randal Tailor

Randal Taylor, bookseller, map/chart seller, 1650–ca. 1694; in St. Martin le Grand near St. Leonard's Churchyard, 1664–1667; at the Crown in Little Britain, 1669–1677; near Stationers' Hall, 1680–1694 / near Stationers Hall in Amen Corner, 1681–1690. Father of James Taylor and Elizabeth Whitlock, also a bookseller, married to bookseller John Whitlock.

Plomer's statement that Taylor was "Still in business in 1700" is mistaken. The "R. Taylor" in the entry for Wing D655 in the Term Catalogues (February 1699/1700) is actually Richard Taylor, a Congregational minister. Taylor's will is dated 22 November 1689 and probated 21 September 1694. He left a few small bequests and divided the rest of his property equally between his son and daughter. He bequeathed Elizabeth's half to his son James and bookseller Benjamin Tooke

in Trust to & for the Sole & seperate use & maintenance of my Daughter Eliz: Whitlock the wife of Iohn Whitlock to be placed & put out in the names of my said good ffreind Master Benjamin Tooke & my said Sonn lames Tayler for the  Sole & seperate use & maintenance of my said Daughter & her Children barring & excluding her said husband from having any thing to doe therein or to intermeddle therewith & willing that my Daughter's Receipts & discharges without her husband shall be at all times good & sufficient discharges to my Executors from time to time for what she shall receive for her maintenance as aforesaid. (Wayne H. Phelps, "The Will of Randall Taylor, a Restoration Bookseller," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1978, p. 336–7)

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

TAYLOR (RANDAL), bookseller in London; St. Martin's le Grand neer St. Leonards Church-yard, 1664-7. His name occurs on the imprint to Thos. Philipot's Original and growth of the Spanish Monarchy, 1664. [Ames Collection, 3165.]

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

TAYLOR (RANDAL), see Dictionary, 1641–67. Still in business in 1700. [T.C. III. 170.]