BOWYER, WILLIAM

BOWYER, WILLIAM
   printer and scholar, born in London; wrote on the origin of printing, and published an edition of the Greek New Testament with notes (1699-1777). "BOX AND COX," a farce by J. M. Morton, remarkable for a successful run such as is said to have brought the author £7000.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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