Details for: YOUNG, Robert

Name: YOUNG, Robert
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): At the Star on Bread Street Hill (1629-41?)
Book Trades: Printer, Bookseller, Stationer, Bookbinder, Publisher
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1612 (date of freedom) - 1643 (date of death)
Biographical Dates: 1612 (before) - 1643 (date of death)
Notes: Apprenticed to & part Humphrey Lownes. Agent in Dublin for Irish Stock. King's printer, Scotland. Assoc R Badger sr. Royalist
Sources:
  • Plomer, Henry R., A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907)
  • 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
  • Gibson, Strickland, Abstracts from Wills and Testamentary Documents of Binders, Printers and Stationers of Oxford 1493-1638 (1907)
  • Hunt, Arnold, 'Book Trade Patents, 1603-1640', in The Book Trade and its customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997)