With Moseley
Robinson is most noted for publishing two collections of plays in English Renaissance drama; he partnered in these works with colleague Humphrey Moseley. The most important of these collections was the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647; they also issued a significant collection of James Shirley's dramas titled ''Six New Plays'' in 1653. The two Humphreys also published a volume of the Duke of Newcastle's plays, and Sir William Davenant's '' Love and Honour'', both in 1649. (After Moseley's death in 1661, Robinson worked with widow Anne Moseley when she continued her late husband's business; conjointly they published theAnd without
Operating without Moseley, Robinson published John Milton's masque '' Comus'' (1637), and Peter Hausted's scandalous play ''The Rival Friends'' (1645). Beyond the confines of the drama, Robinson published a range of works of various types, from the miscellaneous works of SirLater career
Robinson served as a Warden of the Stationers Company in 1653, and as the guild's Master in both 1661 and 1667; in the later year, he was responsible for rebuilding the guildhall after the Great Fire of London (1666). In the mid-1650s, during the Commonwealth of England, Commonwealth era, Robinson maintained an important correspondence with Joseph Williamson (English politician), Joseph Williamson, who later became Secretary of State; their letters are preserved in the State Papers, and provide abundant data on the role Robinson played as a leading publisher of the period. (Williamson, at this early point in his career, regularly travelled to France as a tutor of young aristocrats; he simultaneously worked as Robinson's agent and business contact with French publishers.) At his death he was survived by two children, a son, Humphrey, and a daughter, Grace. At the time of the father's death, the son was a fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. Grace Robinson received two houses in St. Paul's Churchyard in her father's last will and testament. The stationer John Baker II leased the Three Pigeons shop from Robinson's heirs and continued the business to 1684.Furdell, Elizabeth Jane. ''Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England.'' Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2002; p. 116.See also
* Robert Allot * William Aspley * Edward Blount * Cuthbert Burby * Walter Burre * Philip Chetwinde * Francis Constable * Crooke and Cooke * Richard Hawkins * Henry Herringman * William Jaggard * Richard Meighen * William Ponsonby * John Smethwick * Thomas ThorpeReferences
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Humphrey Publishers (people) from London Year of birth missing 1670 deaths English booksellers