JONES (JOHNES), RICHARD, printer and bookseller in London from 1564 to c. 1602

It is not known to whom he was apprenticed, but he was received into the fraternity of the Company of Stationers on 7 August 1564. R. B. McKerrow, general editor of A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England … 1557-1640 (London, 1910) names six places in or fairly near S. Paul's churchyard where Jones was in business from time to time. He was, in the main, a printer of popular literature, ballads, and such things, although he printed some more substantial works. He received licences from the Company of Stationers to print a Catechism in Welsh, 1566-7, a ' Sonett or a synners solace made by Hughe Gryffythe prysoner,' in Welsh and English, 1587, ' Epytaphe on the Death of Sir Yevan Lloyd of Yale knighte ' (by the same Hugh Gryffythe), 1587-8, ' Sermon preached by master Doctor Morgan at the funerall of Sir Ieuan Lloyd knight,' in Welsh 1588-9. It is true that no copies of the above appear to have been preserved but that is not definite proof that they did not appear. It is not known how much of a Welshman Richard Jones was, but the motto which appears so often on his books, ' Heb Ddiev heb Ddim,' suggests that he was at any rate of Welsh stock; [this engraved device of his passed into the hands of Wm. Jaggard, who fraudulently used it on the imprints of eight of the Shakespeare quartos].

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 168-9
• [ The Liverpool Daily Post, 19 April 1920 ]

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733697

Published date: 1959

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