PRYS, STAFFORD (1732 - 1784), bookseller and printer of books at Shrewsbury;

christened in 1732, the second son of Stafford Price, M.D., and Mary (Evans) - the father of the family of Pertheirin, Llanwnnog, Montgomeryshire, and the mother of the family of Stradling, S. Donats, Glamorganshire Stafford Prys was apprenticed to Thomas Durston, 21 November 1750, and became a freeman of the ' Combrethren of Saddlers … ', Shrewsbury, on 24 May 1758, the year in which he started as a master-printer in that town; on his death, in 1784, the business was continued by his wife Ann Prys (1737 - 1826), daughter of Thomas Bright, Shrewsbury. Stafford Prys printed a large number of Welsh books and ballads at Shrewsbury; for the titles of some of them see the source-books listed below. In one of his first (1758) publications, a ballad, he announces to his ' Cydwladwyr y Cymru ' ('his fellow-country men the Welsh') that he has just set up a printing press.

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• W. Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography (Llanidloes 1869)
• J. H. Davies, A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads printed in the 18th century (London 1908-11)
• Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales to 1810, and of successive and related printers to 1923 (Cardiff 1925)
• Llewelyn C. Lloyd, 'The Book-Trade in Shropshire …' in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1935 and 1936.

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q18535874

Published date: 1959

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