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

by Henry Robert Plomer

SPEED (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, (1) Printing Press, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Rainbow, between the two Temple Gates. 1658-67. Probably the son of Daniel Speed, stationer, who was publishing from 1603 to 1620. [Arber, v. 266.] In 1658 he was associated with Joseph Barber. In 1664 he issued a catalogue of books entered in the Register of the Company of Stationers between December 25th, 1662, and December 25th, 1663. [Bibliographica, vol. iii. p. 183.] In 1666 he was informed against for selling law books that had been printed during the Commonwealth, and was imprisoned and bound over in three hundred pounds not to sell any more of them. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, 156, 105, 106.]