A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Blunden (Humphrey)
BLUNDEN (HUMPHREY), bookseller in London; Castle in Cornhill, 1635-52. Took up his freedom June 15th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 688.] Before the Civil War he is found publishing plays and books of a popular character. In 1639 he issued Robert Davenport's comedy, New Trick to cheat the Devill; and in 1640 J. Johnson's Academy of Love. During the Civil War he issued a large number of political pamphlets, and was associated with John Partridge in the publication of many of the writings of William Lilly, the astrologer. But his chief claim to notice at that period was as editor of a news-sheet called Speciall Passages and certain informations from several places, the first number of which appeared on August 16th, 1642. It became popularly known as "Blunden's Passages" [Mercurius Civicus, June 8th, 1643.] Nothing more is heard of him after 1652.