Henry Herringman (1628–1704) was a prominent London bookseller and publisher in the second half of the 17th century. He is especially noted for his publications in English Renaissance drama and English Restoration drama; he was the first publisher of the works of John Dryden. He conducted his business under the sign of the Blue Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange.
Herringman had established himself as an independent bookseller and publisher by 1655. He issued the first edition of Thomas Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent in 1661. Herringman had a reputation as a rare stationer who actually profited from the Great Fire of London (1666), in which most of his compatriots lost their stocks of printed books. He was a member of the syndicates of stationers who issued the major collections of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the second half of the century, including the Shakespeare Fourth Folio (1685), the third Ben Jonson folio (1692), and the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio (1679). Herringman also published the collected plays of Thomas Killigrew (1664); the collected works of Sir William Davenant (1673); the Dryden/Davenant adaptation of The Tempest (1670); and plays by Thomas Shadwell, William Wycherley, George Etherege, and Sir Robert Howard, among others.
Dryden appears to have had a close professional relationship with Herringman early in his career, when he served as a sort of general editorial assistant in Herringman's business, perhaps to the point of taking his board and lodging with Herringman. In this capacity as a supervisor and reviser of texts, Dryden may have worked on Shakespearean plays for Herringman.[1]
In addition to dramas, Herringman published a large body of nondramatic literature, including (partnered with John Martyn) the 1678 edition of Samuel Butler's Hudibras, which contained the poem's third and final part. Herringman published works by Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, John Donne, Francis Bacon, Roger Boyle, and Robert Boyle. He also produced a wide variety of general-interest works, as well as law books.
Herringman became master of the Stationers Company in 1685. After selling his retail business in 1684, Herringman became, in effect, the first wholesale book publisher in England; his imprint exists on 532 publications from his era.[2]
^Sonia Massai, "Taking just care of the impression': Editorial Intervention in Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, 1685', in Holland, pp. 257–70.
HenryHerringman (1628–1704) was a prominent London bookseller and publisher in the second half of the 17th century. He is especially noted for his publications...
(1656). The Royall Game of Chesse-play. Translated by Beale, Francis. HenryHerringman. Retrieved 6 January 2024. O’Conner, Patricia T.; Kellerman, Stewart...
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Robert (1664). Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. London: HenryHerringman. Brett, Mark G. (2000). Genesis: Procreation and the Politics of Identity...
Theology Compar'd with Natural Philosophy. London: Printed by T.N. for HenryHerringman. p. 178. Patterson, Robert Hogarth (1862). "Colour in nature and art...
of these were included in The Works of Sr William D'avenant Kt., by HenryHerringman in 1673, which was copied from Davenant's own originals. 1630: Ieffereidos...
Florence) Thomaso, or the Wanderer (two-part play; Madrid). In 1664, HenryHerringman published a collected edition of Killigrew's dramas, titled Comedies...
Robert Boyle (1664), "Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours", HenryHerringman, London, pp. 160–61 Palmeri, Frank (2006). Humans And Other Animals...
Sawbridge 1674 Richard Royston Robert White Thomas Roycroft Henry Leigh HenryHerringman John Lilly Randall Taylor George Sawbridge 1675 George Sawbridge...
Boyle, Robert (1664). Experiments and Considerations touching Colours. HenryHerringman. p. 220. But I think I may easily be excus'd (though I do not altogether...
Shakespeare's plays, it was prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell. It was dedicated to the "incomparable pair of brethren" William...
Boyle, Robert (1664). Experiments and Considerations touching Colours. HenryHerringman. p. 220. But I think I may easily be excus'd (though I do not altogether...
Bergerac. Translated from the French by a Person of Honour. London: HenryHerringman. Cyrano de Bergerac (1659). ΣΕΛΗΝΑΡΧΙΑ, or, The government of the world...
Natural history of nutrition, life, and voluntary motion, London: HenryHerringman 1659. The Ephesian and Cimmerian Matrons, 1659. Chorea Gigantum (1663)...
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the production in question. The play was first published in 1667 by HenryHerringman. Dryden dedicated the play to Ann Scott, Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch...
occur.) The play was published in a quarto edition that same year by HenryHerringman, and printed again in a folio collection of Howard's works in 1692...
the English stage. The Maiden Queen was first published in 1668 by HenryHerringman. Another edition followed in 1698. Dryden composed his play in a mixture...
the Norman Conquest (Thomas Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin and HenryHerringman, London 1675-76), I, pp. 443-47 (Umich/eebo); R.W. Eyton, Antiquities...
quien vengo vengo. The Assignation was published in quarto in 1673 by HenryHerringman. Dryden dedicated the play to Sir Charles Sedley. The play was republished...
was included in the edition of Davenant's collected works issued by HenryHerringman in 1673. In plotting The Wits, Davenant depended upon a play of the...
of England, 2 vols (Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, Iohn Martin, and HenryHerringman, London 1676), I, pp. 441-42 (Umich/eebo) K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, A Prosopography...
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