Standring - Games Publisher

Game Maker Notes Name Standring Brief Description At Finsbury Street from c1851-1885. Cowan and Standring 1855.. Still trading at 7 Finsbury Street 1907. Standring and Co. published several games which appear on Barfoot's lists. Principal Maker Y Copyright Registrations in this name 4 Other Registrations Adverts 8 adverts c1865 Games, etc., Already Published c1866 List of Games, etc., Already Published 1873 Samuel Standring 1877 Fancy boxes, instructive games, etc. 1859 The Silver Lake 1881 List of Puzzles and Games Pictures copyright restricted 1863 Games of Skill c1855-1862 List of Games Already Published Examples 42 examples By 1851 Samuel Standring had become a toy maker employing 7 men, and is described as a carpenter. Hannas records Lewis Cowan as a publisher at 19 Aylesbury Street, Clerkenwell from 1844, and Cowan and Standring at 8 & 9 Finsbury Street from 1852. Listed in Hodson, 1855 as Cowan and Standring Also recorded as Samuel Standring a printer employing 20 men in 1861. Cowan died in February 1864. Most of this information courtesy of Laurence Worms. Also Standring and Co. or S Standring. (Samuel) The Old Woman who lived in her shoe. Album Series of 6d. Toy Books, c1863. Cowan and Standring. (Opie). Jack and Jill in the same series. See the entry in this database. Humpty Dumpty/Dumty earlier in Toyman Series. See the entry in this database. Booklets published as Cowan and Standring Games as Standring and Co. including a series with blue backs and yellow labels in 1860s Copyrights as Samuel Standring Games include: Lost Goose Found Little Dickey Birds (Osborne) Roarem Castle see Play the Game (Brian Love) p50 Ships and Commerce, or Merchants of the Mediterranean 1860 see Play the Game p7 Our Village Sights and Plights Parlour Cricket (copyright 1865). See the two Standring/Barfoot trade lists in this database. His two sons Samuel b.1853 and George b.1855 were also printers and publishers.