Richard Tottel

Matthias Bauer (Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tübingen); Sarah Briest (Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tübingen); Sara Rogalski (Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tübingen); Angelika Zirker (Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tübingen)

Ed. by J A Roe, University of York
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

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Born 1530
Died 1594
Activity 1550-1594

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Born in England
Active in England

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Richard Tottel (c. 1528-1593) is chiefly remembered for printing the extremely influential English poetry anthology

Songes and Sonnets

, first published in 1557 and best known today as

Tottel’s Miscellany

. The collection had gone into seven editions by 1585; after that, the imprint went to John Windet (in 1585) and to Robert Robinson for the ninth and final edition in 1587 (“Tottel’s Miscellany”).

Born in 1528, Richard Tottel grew up in a family of altogether eleven children. His father, William Tothill (for variations of the name, see Greening, 2004), was a fishmonger in Exeter and a conscientious citizen who first acted as sheriff and bailiff and eventually became mayor of the city in 1552. Richard Tottel went to London to become an apprentice to the printers William Middleton and

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Citation: Bauer, Matthias, Sarah Briest, Sara Rogalski, Angelika Zirker. "Richard Tottel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 July 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4429, accessed 16 October 2024.]