Bowyer, William, Fsa

Bowyer, William, F.S.A., the "last of the learned English printers," was born in London 1699, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He entered into business as a printer with his father 1722, and died in 1777. Besides editing a great number of important works in classical and general literature, he published Critical Conjectures and Observations on the New Testament, collected from various Authors (4th ed Lond. 1812 4to).