GLEN (JAMES), printer and bookseller, Edinburgh; In the Parliament Yard, 1656-87. A James Glen appears among the debtors in Lithgow's Inventory, 1662. Probably one of the booksellers who in 1671 acquired the printing-house of the Society of Stationers. A partner of A. Anderson in the privilege and appointment of King's printer, 1671. His name as printer, alone and in partnership, appears in books from 1667 to 1681. In 1687 he was ordered to be imprisoned for causing to be reprinted The Rout of Romish Rites. [H. G. Aldis, List of Books printed in Scotland, 1905, p. 113.]
GODBID (WILLIAM), printer in London; Over against the Anchor Inn in Little Britain, 1656-77. Apprenticed to Richard Cotes, who at his death left him a legacy of forty shillings. A notable feature of Godbid's work was the printing of music. In 1657 and 1659 he printed John Gamble's Ayres and Dialogues, in 1658 Henry Lawes' Ayres and Dialogues, and in 1669 the same author's Treasury of Music; in 1658, 1667, and 1669 John Hilton's collection of catches under the title of Catch that Catch can. Amongst his other work as a printer was Richard Lovelace's Lucasta, 1659, and Sir Aston Cokain's Plays and Poems. In the survey of the press made in July, 1668, he was returned as having three presses, five workmen, and two apprentices. [Plomer, Short History, p. 226.]
GODWIN, or GOODWIN (JOSEPH), printer and bookseller in Oxford, 1637-67. His imprint is found in the following work: Christophori Scheibleri Antehac in academia Gissena professoris … Metaphysica … editio ultima, 1637. [F. Madan, Oxford Press, pp. 201, 308.] He was also the publisher of the later edition of 1665.
GOLDING (E), (?) bookseller in London, 1647. Only known from the imprint to the following pamphlet: A True and Full Relation of the late Sea-Fight … London, Printed for E. Golding, 1647 (May 10th). [E. 386 (12).] He may have been a relative of John or Percival Golding mentioned in Mr. Arber's Transcript, iii. 684; v. xcii. His address has not been found.
GOODMAN'S FIELDS PRESS, London, 1645. A secret press, supposed to have belonged to William Larner, the Independent bookseller, was seized by Joseph Hunscot, the searcher for the Stationers' Company, in a house
