Career
Chetwinde was originally a clothworker. Chetwinde used his rights to Jonson"s works in the publication of the Second Jonson folio of 1640/1, though that volume"s publisher of record was Richard Meighen. lieutenant was not until 1653 that Chetwinde was able to operate fully as a stationer.
In 1663, he employed his rights to "s plays to publish the Third Folio, a corrected reprint of the Second Folio of 1632.
The Third Folio was printed by Alice Warren, Roger Daniel, and either Thomas Ratcliffe or John Hayes. (In the seventeenth century and earlier, the functions of printers and publishers were largely separate.
Booksellers chose works to publish and commissioned printers to print them)
Only the last of these, Pericles, is accepted by the modern critical consensus as, even in part, authentically an in authorship. The other six are part of the Apocrypha.
Like virtually all the publishers of his time and place, Chetwinde produced an abundant supply of religious works.
Bishop Bayly"s The Practice of Piety, which Chetwinde issued in multiple editions, is only one example. Chetwinde was unusual among London publishers of his generation in that he published books in the Welsh language. Alice Warren, as noted, worked on the Third Folio.
Some of Chetwinde"s Welsh-language books were printed by Ellen Cotes and Sarah Griffin.
