English Rogue in which a thief's career is set forth. The work became popular, and Francis Kirkman issued several additions to it, until its author began to doubt whether he would ever make an end of pestering the world with them. [Head (R), Proteus Redivivus: Epistle Dedicatory.]
HEARNE, HERNE, or HERON (RICHARD), printer in London; neer Smith-Field, 1632-46. Probably one of Adam Islip's apprentices, for that printer at his death in 1639 left Richard Hearne his "printing presses, letters and implements used for printing," besides a sum of £100. [P.C.C. 151, Harvey.] Hearne had taken up his freedom February 6th, 1632, and his first book entry in the Registers of the Company was T. Heywood's Pleasant Dialogues, entered on August 29th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687; iv. 347.]
HEATH (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Russell Street, neere the Piazza of the Covent Garden, 1651-54. Issued an edition of Sidney's Arcadia, 1651; Ed. Chamberlayne's Rise & Fall of … the Count Olivares, 1652, and a few plays.
HEATHCOAT, or HEATHCOTE (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London; Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1656. Only known from the imprint to the following pamphlet: Stephens (Nath.), Plain and easie calculation, 1656. [Harl 5965 (158).]
HEATHCOTE, see Heathcoat.
HEBB (ANDREW), bookseller in London; Bell in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1625-48. Took up his freedom June 22nd, 1621. [Arber, iii. 685.] On May 6th, 1625, all the copyrights and parts belonging to Thomas Adams were transferred to Andrew Hebb. Andrew Hebb died October 28th, 1648, "of a dropsie." [Smyth's Obituary, p. 26.]
HEDGES (ROBERT), see Hodges.
HELDER (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Angel in Little Britain, 1666-85. In 1667 he issued an edition of a very popular book of humour called Wits Recreations, or Recreations for Ingenious Headpieces, but he is chiefly remembered as one of the booksellers whose name appeared on the 1669 title-page of Paradise Lost. His name is first met with in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, where he is returned as having three hearths. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, 25232.]
