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Humphrey Robinson
A key figure in London’s seventeenth-century book trade, he helped bring major works of English literature into print. His career offers a glimpse into the busy world of publishers, booksellers, and printers during a turbulent period in British history.
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A Simple Explanation of Modern Banking Customs
by Humphrey Robinson
About the author
Humphrey Robinson was a London publisher and bookseller who died in 1670. Active in the middle of the seventeenth century, he became an important name in the English book trade and was associated with the Stationers' Company, the guild that helped regulate publishing in London.
He is especially remembered for his connection to major literary works of the period. Sources describe him as one of the publishers involved in the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher folio, and he is also linked with important publications connected to writers such as John Milton and Shakespeare.
Although not an author in the modern sense, Robinson played a meaningful part in how books reached readers. For anyone interested in literary history, his story sits at the crossroads of commerce, printing, and the preservation of some of England’s best-known writing.