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John Marriot (died 1657) and his son Richard Marriot (died 1679) were prominent
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publishers and booksellers in the seventeenth century. For a portion of their careers, the 1645–57 period, they were partners in a family business.


John Marriot

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. Marriot published a wide range of books on many subjects, including the religious works that were a dominant feature of his era; John Meredith's ''The Sin of Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost'' (1622) is only one of various possible examples. In 1618 Marriot became the publisher of the
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, and published their ''Pharmacopoeia'' (1618, 1619) — though his relationship with the College would prove difficult and contentious. He published
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's ''The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Cry'' in 1617, and John Murrell's ''A New Book of Cookery'' in 1631. Yet the elder Marriot is most strongly associated with the publication of poetry and literary prose. He produced the first (defective) edition of the collected ''Poems'' of
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in 1633, plus subsequent (improved) editions in 1635, 1639, and down to
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; he also issued volumes of Donne's sermons and other prose works. Marriot also published works of
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, and others, some of them figures now deeply obscure (like the ''Poems'' of Robert Gomersall, in 1633). John Marriot normally operated independently, though occasionally he joined in partnerships with other stationers to produce volumes that were unusually expensive or challenging. Partnered with colleague John Grismand, Marriot published the first edition of
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. Marriot published relatively little of English Renaissance drama, though he did issue
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'' in 1636. In 1645, John Marriot's son Richard joined in partnership with his father; books published by their firm after that date are generally assigned to both men. The title page of their first edition of Quarles's ''The Shepherds' Oracles'' ( 1646) credits the publication to "John Marriot and Thomas Marriot." The title page of the 1650 edition of Donne's ''Poems'' reads "Printed for John Marriot, and are to be sold by Richard Marriot...." On 3 May 1651 John Marriot transferred many of his copyrights to his son; he appears to have entered a semi-retirement after that date.


Richard Marriot

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. He remained in business past his father's retirement and death; his shop was located at the sign of the King's Head, "over against the
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gate" in Fleet Street near Chancery Lane. (The King's Head was a tavern, located upstairs over Marriot's shop.) He continued his father's brand of publishing, with some religious works, like Edward Sparke's ''Scintillula Altaris, or A Pious Reflection on Primitive Religion'' (1652) — yet he also concentrated on literary works. He published Donne's ''Letters'' ( 1651), and the first authorized edition Samuel Butler's ''
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'', Part 1 (
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). He also published the first edition of the poetry of
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— a highly controversial move. "In a letter published in the 1667 edition of her poems, Katherine Philips used the metaphor of rape to describe the pirated manuscript published by Richard Marriot in 1664." Philips died of
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in the year Marriot's edition appeared; the book inspired a debate on whether Philips intended her work to appear in print, and on the propriety of publishing women's writing. (Apparently Marriot was not shy about publishing without an author's permission. With sometime partner
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, he issued a pirated collection of the poetry of Henry King, Bishop of
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.) In prose, the younger Marriot was notable as the publisher of Izaak Walton. He published the first edition of Walton's ''The Compleat Angler'' in 1653, plus subsequent editions (1655, 1661, 1668, 1676); he issued a number of Walton's other works too, in first and later editions. Walton called Marriot "my old friend" in his last will and testament, and left him £10; in the same document, Walton requested his son and namesake to "shew kindness to him arriotif he shall need, and my son can spare it." Marriot issued other books on fishing, like ''Barker's Delight, or the Art of Angling'', by Thomas Barker (1657), and Robert Venables' ''The Experienced Angler'' (1662). In partnership with Henry Brome, Marriot published
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's continuation of Walton's ''Compleat Angler'', sometimes called ''Cotton's Angler'', in 1676. Marriot also published books by Sir
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, and others including Nathaniel Ingelo's '' Bentivolio and Urania'', 1660. He was responsible for some striking literary curiosities. In 1646 he published Thomas Blount's ''The Art of Making Devices. Treating of Hieroglyphics, Symbols, Emblems, Ænigmas, Sentences, Parables, Reverses of Medals, Arms, Blazons, Cimiers, Cyphers, and Rebus.'' In 1656 he issued the second volume of an adventurer's memoirs, lushly titled ''The Legend of Captain Jones: continued from his first part to the end: wherein is delivered his incredible adventures and achievements by sea and land. Particularly his miraculous deliverance from a wrack at Sea by the support of a Dolphin. His several desperate duels. His combat with Bahader Cham a giant of the race of Og. His loves. His deep employments and happy success in business of State. All which, and more, is but the tithe of his own relation, which he continued until he grew speechless, and died.'' Richard Marriot published more drama than his father had. He issued ''
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'' in 1653, and both ''Revenge for Honour'' and
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'' in 1654. (Each of these involved inaccurate attributions, ''The Spanish Gypsy'' to
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, and ''Revenge for Honour'' to
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. In the third case, Heywood likely collaborated with Webster on ''Appius and Virginia''.) In partnership with
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and
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, Marriot published ''Five New Plays'' by
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(1653), an important collection of first imprints of Brome works.Clarence Edward Andrews, ''Richard Brome: A Study of His Life and Works,'' New York, Henry Holt, 1913; p. 41. And he partnered with Henry Herringman and
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in the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1679.


See also

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Edward Blount Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1562–1632) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras, noted for his publication, in conjunction with William and Isaac Jaggard, of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623. H ...
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Cuthbert Burby Cuthbert Burby (died 1607) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He is known for publishing a series of significant volumes of English Renaissance drama, including works by William Shakespeare, Rober ...
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Walter Burre Walter Burre ( fl. 1597 – 1622) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, best remembered for publishing several key texts in English Renaissance drama. Burre was made a "freeman" of the Stationers Compa ...
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Philip Chetwinde Philip Chetwinde ( fl. 1653–1674) was a seventeenth-century London bookseller and publisher, noted for his publication of the Third Folio of Shakespeare's plays. A rough start Chetwinde was originally a clothworker. Through his 1637 marriag ...
* Crooke and Cooke *
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William Jaggard William Jaggard ( – November 1623) was an Elizabethan and Jacobean printer and publisher, best known for his connection with the texts of William Shakespeare, most notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays. Jaggard's shop was "at t ...
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Augustine Matthews Augustine Matthews (fl. 1615 – 1637) was a printer in London in the Jacobean and Caroline eras. Among a wide variety of other work, Matthews printed notable texts in English Renaissance drama. Matthews became a freedman (a full member) o ...
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Richard Meighen Richard Meighen (died 1641) was a London publisher of the Jacobean and Caroline eras. He is noted for his publications of plays of English Renaissance drama; he published the second Ben Jonson folio of 1640/41, and was a member of the syndicat ...
* William Ponsonby * Humphrey Robinson *
John Smethwick John Smethwick (died 1641) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras. Along with colleague William Aspley, Smethwick was one of the "junior partners" in the publishing syndicate that issued the First Folio collecti ...
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Thomas Thorpe Thomas Thorpe ( 1569 – 1625) was an English publisher, most famous for publishing Shakespeare's sonnets and several works by Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. His publication of the sonnets has long been controversial. Nineteenth-century ...
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Thomas Walkley Thomas Walkley ( fl. 1618 – 1658) was a London publisher and bookseller in the early and middle seventeenth century. He is noted for publishing a range of significant texts in English Renaissance drama, "and much other interesting literature ...


Publication

* Franciscus Gerardus Petrus Kellendonk: ''John & Richard Marriott. The history of a seventeenth-century publishing house''. Amsterdam, 1978. (Dissertation Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen).


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