JONES, WILLIAM COLLISTER (1772 - ?), printer at Chester

Christened 12 July 1772, son of William and Sarah Jones, Chester. W. C. Jones and Thomas Crane were printing Welsh books in partnership from about 1796; in 1797 they began to print George Lewis, Drych Ysgrythyrol. In 1798 they arranged to print Welsh religious works for Thomas Charles, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Denbigh; in that year, however, the name of Crane disappears from the imprints. W. C. Jones's name appears in T. Charles, Hanes Fer o For-Daith y Llong Duff. W. C. Jones was the first printer of Trysorfa Ysprydol, i.e. from 1799 to 1802. In the latter year the arrangement with T. Charles and T. Jones came to an end; in 1803 they had their own printer at Bala, Robert Saunderson. Saunderson had learnt his craft at W. C. Jones's Chester office; other W. C. Jones apprentices were Thomas Gee and John Broster. It is probable that W. C. Jones ceased to publish Welsh books about 1807.

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• Morris Parry, 'Chester Welsh Printing' in Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological and Historic Society of Chester and North Wales, 1913
• Morris Parry, Gwasg Gymraeg Caerlleon (Caerleon 1931)
• Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales to 1810, and of successive and related printers to 1923 (Cardiff 1925)

Works

• Hugh Jones, Hymnau newyddion: ynghyd ag ychydig benhillion ar yr amserau; a rhai gwersi o erfyniad am ddiogelwch i Frydain (Caerlleon 1797)
• Thomas Edwards, Cân ar berson Paris, neu, Rynniau'r Iwerddon (Caerlleon 1802)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734581

Published date: 1959

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