In this street, too, "a tenement called Bokbynder's
is mentioned in a charter of 1363-4; and although bookbinding
may not have been carried on there at that date,
the fact of the name having been attached to the place
seems sufficient to justify the assumption that a binder
or guild of binders had formerly been established there.
In Cat Street a Tenementum Bokbyndere, owned by Osney
Abbey, was rented in 1402 by Henry the lymner, at a somewhat
later date by Richard the parchment-seller, and in
1453 by All Souls' College."[2]
[1] Biblio. Soc. Monogr. x. (S. Gibson), 43-6.
[2] Ibid, p. 1; O H.S, 29; Madan, 267, contains long list of
references.
Stationers had transcripts made, bought, sold and hired
out books and received them in pawn. They acted as
agents when books and other goods were sold; in 1389, for
example, a stationer received twenty pence for his services
in buying two books, one costing L 4 and the other five
marks.[1] They attended the fair at St. Giles near Oxford
to sell books. This was not their only interest, for they
dealt in goods of many kinds. They were in fact general
tradesmen: sellers, valuers, and agents; liable to be called
upon to have a book copied, to buy or sell a book, to set a
value upon a pledge, to make an inventory and valuation
of a scholar's goods and chattels after his death.
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