Richard Marriot actually began his career prior to his partnership with his father; he issued several works before 1645, including, in partnership with Richard Royston, a volume of Donne's
Sermons in
1640. He remained in business past his father's retirement and death; his shop was located at the sign of the King's Head, "over against the
Inner Temple gate" in Fleet Street near Chancery Lane. (The King's Head was a tavern, located upstairs over Marriot's shop.) He continued his father's brand of publishing, with some religious works, like
Edward Sparke's
Scintillula Altaris, or A Pious Reflection on Primitive Religion (1652) — yet he also concentrated on literary works. He published Donne's
Letters (
1651), and the first authorized edition
Samuel Butler's
Hudibras, Part 1 (
1963). He also published the first edition of the poetry of
Katherine Philips in
1664 — a highly controversial move. "In a letter published in the 1667 edition of her poems, Katherine Philips used the metaphor of rape to describe the pirated manuscript published by Richard Marriot in 1664." Philips died of
smallpox in the year Marriot's edition appeared; the book inspired a debate on whether Philips intended her work to appear in print, and on the propriety of publishing women's writing. (Apparently Marriot was not shy about publishing without an author's permission. With sometime partner
Henry Herringman, he issued a pirated collection of the poetry of
Henry King, Bishop of
Chichester, in
1657.) In prose, the younger Marriot was notable as the publisher of
Izaak Walton. He published the first edition of Walton's
The Compleat Angler in
1653, plus subsequent editions (1655, 1661, 1668, 1676); he issued a number of Walton's other works too, in first and later editions. Walton called Marriot "my old friend" in his last will and testament, and left him £10; in the same document, Walton requested his son and namesake to "shew kindness to him [Marriot] if he shall need, and my son can spare it." Marriot issued other books on fishing, like ''Barker's Delight, or the Art of Angling'', by Thomas Barker (1657), and Robert Venables'
The Experienced Angler (1662). In partnership with Henry Brome, Marriot published
Charles Cotton's continuation of Walton's
Compleat Angler, sometimes called ''Cotton's Angler'', in 1676. Marriot also published books by Sir
Henry Wotton, Sir
Thomas Overbury, and others including
Nathaniel Ingelo's
Bentivolio and Urania, 1660. He was responsible for some striking literary curiosities. In 1646 he published Thomas Blount's
The Art of Making Devices. Treating of Hieroglyphics, Symbols, Emblems, Ænigmas, Sentences, Parables, Reverses of Medals, Arms, Blazons, Cimiers, Cyphers, and Rebus. In 1656 he issued the second volume of an
adventurer's memoirs, lushly titled
The Legend of Captain Jones: continued from his first part to the end: wherein is delivered his incredible adventures and achievements by sea and land. Particularly his miraculous deliverance from a wrack at Sea by the support of a Dolphin. His several desperate duels. His combat with Bahader Cham a giant of the race of Og. His loves. His deep employments and happy success in business of State. All which, and more, is but the tithe of his own relation, which he continued until he grew speechless, and died. Richard Marriot published more drama than his father had. He issued
The Spanish Gypsy in 1653, and both
Revenge for Honour and
Webster's
Appius and Virginia in 1654. (Each of these involved inaccurate attributions,
The Spanish Gypsy to
Thomas Middleton and
William Rowley, and
Revenge for Honour to
George Chapman. In the third case, Heywood likely collaborated with Webster on
Appius and Virginia.) In partnership with
Humphrey Moseley and
Thomas Dring, Marriot published
Five New Plays by
Richard Brome (1653), an important collection of first imprints of Brome works. And he partnered with Henry Herringman and
John Martyn in the
second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of
1679. ==See also==