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James Roberts (printer)
James Roberts (fl. 1564–1606), was an English printer who printed many important works of Elizabethan literature. F. G. Fleay says that "he seems to have been given to piracy and invasion of copyright".〔Shakespeare Manual, 1878, p. 145〕
==Career==
Roberts was made free of the Company of Stationers on 27 June 1564, and on 24 June 1567 began to take apprentices. The first entry to him is for ''An almanacke and pronostication of Master Roberte Moore, 1570''.〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, i. 240, 326, 402〕 He was one of several who petitioned the company for pardon on 27 January 1577–8, after having presented certain complaints.〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, ii. 880〕 With R. Watkins he had a patent for almanacs and prognostications for twenty-one years from 12 May 1588.〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, ii. 817–18〕 This patent lasted to the end of the reign of Elizabeth. James I granted for ever the right to the Stationers' Company from 29 October 1603.〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, iii. 15〕 Roberts took over John Charlewood's books on 31 May 1594,〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, ii. 651–2〕 including the right of printing playbills, which William Jaggard unsuccessfully applied for.
About 1595 Roberts probably married Charlewood's widow, Alice. He was presumably later widowered, as he is also said to have married a daughter of the stationer Thomas Heyes, with whom he published ''The Merchant of Venice'' in 1600. The court of assistants ordered, on 1 September 1595, "that James Roberts shall clerely from hensforth surcease to deale with the printinge of the Brief Catechisme", recently printed by him, and that he should deliver up all sheets of the book.〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, ii. 824〕 On 25 June 1596 he was admitted into the livery.〔Arber, Transcript of the Registers, ii. 872〕
Roberts continued to print Charlewood's catalogue of poetry for a variety of publishers including works by Henry Constable, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, and Philip Sidney's ''Apologie for Poetrie'' (1595), as well as the collection England's Helicon (1600). He printed satires: Thomas Nashe's ''Christ's Tears over Jerusalem'' (1594), John Marston's ''Scourge of Villainy'' (1598), and Everard Guilpin's ''Skialatheia'' (1598). He also continued to print playbills for The Lord Chamberlain's Men (Shakespeare's company), he registered five plays belonging to the company but never published any of them himself: ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1598), ''A Larum for London'' (1600), and ''Troilus and Cressida'' (1603). He also entered a lost play ''Cloth Breeches and Velvet Hose'' and printed the second quarto of Shakespeare's ''Titus Andronicus'' for Edward White.
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