A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Mead (Robert)

by Henry Robert Plomer

MEAD (ROBERT), bookseller (?) in London; (?) Crane in St. Paul's Churchyard. [Ch. Meredith's house], 1617-56. Son of Thomas Mead, of Weston, co. Somerset, husbandman. Apprentice to John Standish for nine years from Michaelmas, 1599. Took up his freedom October 3rd, 1608. [Arber, iii. 683.] Warden of the Company of Stationers, 1638, 1642; Master of the Company, 1644, 1645, 1649. In company with Christopher Meredith took over all the copyrights of Richard Hawkins, but they transferred them to William Leake a few months later. [Arber, iv. 420, 452.] No book has been found bearing Mead's name in the imprint.