93,758 profiles ranked live

Back to the boardThe board

William Barley

✓ Source-basedstable

English bookseller and publisher (1565?-1614)

Lived 1560 to 1614 · aged 54
Compare
Fame39.7
Momentum5.2
Languages7
In century#5,250

-1614) was an English bookseller and publisher. He completed an apprenticeship as a draper in 1587, but was soon working in the London book trade.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photos 2

Cover of the anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III (1594), which was "to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market"Cover of the anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III (1594), which was "to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market"Title page of Anthony Holborne's Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs (1599), which Barley helped publishTitle page of Anthony Holborne's Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs (1599), which Barley helped publish

About this person

William Barley (1565?-1614) was an English bookseller and publisher. He completed an apprenticeship as a draper in 1587, but was soon working in the London book trade. As a freeman of the Drapers' Company, he was embroiled in a dispute between it and the Stationers' Company over the rights of drapers to function as publishers and booksellers. He found himself in legal tangles throughout his life.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1560 to 1614 · aged 54
Wikipedia
7 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.