Details for: TOTTELL, Richard

Name: TOTTELL, Richard
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): None
Book Trades: Printer, Bookseller, Printer (law)
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1547 (date of freedom) - 1593 (date of death)
Biographical Dates: 1547 (before) - 1593 (date of death)
Notes: Patentee. Possibly son of Henry Tottell of Exeter. Master of Ralph Blower; William Hoskins. Assoc J Charlewood. Petitioned in 1585 for a privilege of the sole right of making white paper in England and for the prohibition of the export of rags. Had three presses in 1578.
Sources:
  • Duff, E. Gordon, A Century of the English Book Trade (London, 1948)
  • Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, 3 vols. (London 1986, 1976, 1991), esp. vol. 3
  • No sources listed
  • Barnard, John & Bell, Maureen, 'The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583)', in Publishing History 29 (1991), pp.5-46