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EMERY (JASPAR), bookseller in London; In Paul's Church-yard at the signe of the Eagle and Child, neare St. Austin's Gate, 1629-41. Took up his freedom March 26th, 1629 [Arber, iii. 686], and at once began to publish plays, amongst his first entries in the register being Thomas Drew's Duchess of Suffolk, which he entered on November 13th, 1629. He was also the publisher of Thomas Heywood's Life of Merlin, issued in 1641. [B.M. 292. f. 35.]

ENDERBY (SAMUEL), bookseller in London; Popes Head Alley, at the signe of the Starre, 1643-45. Son of Daniel Enderby of London, merchant tailor, apprentice to Nathaniel Newberry for eight years from March 5th, 163 1/2. Took up his freedom August 27th, 1638. Published a few political pamphlets.

EUSTER or EWSTER (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Gun in Ivy Lane, 1649. The publisher of Richard Lovelace's collection of verse entitled Lucasta, which was printed for him by Thomas Harper in 1649. William Dugard also printed for him the same year a little school manual entitled The Plainest Directions for the true-writing of English … By Richard Hodges … 1649. [E. 1377 (1).]

EVERSDEN (GEORGE), bookseller in London, (1) Over against the little North gate of S. Paul's Church, 1650; (2) Golden Ball, Aldersgate Street, 1652; (3) At the Mayden-head in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1656-65; (4) Adam & Eve, St. John's Lane, 1666-73. A list of 15 books published by him is given on the last leaf of J. Smith's Mysterie of Rhetorique Unveil'd, 1665. [B.M. 11805. b. 24.] With the exception of a medical work by Culpeper, and the Life of Sir Thos. More, these are all theological. This same list was reprinted without addition or alteration in the edition of the same work printed in 1673. The following are the references to his addresses in the order given: (1) Hoddesdon (J.), Sion and Parnassus or Epigrams, 1650; (2) T. More, Vita & Exitus, 1652; (3) Smith (J.), Mysterie of Rhetorique unveil'd, 1665; (4) Arber's Term Catalogues, vol. 1, p. 157.

EVERSDEN (HENRY), bookseller in London, (1) Gray-Hound in St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Under the Crown Tavern in West Smithfield. 1657-67. A list of 17 books published by Henry Eversden and three forthcoming