HOLDEN (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Blue Anchor in the New Exchange; (2) The Anchor in the New Exchange. 1650-1. Apparently the predecessor of Henry Herringman at this address. Publisher of Abraham Cowley's Guardian, 1650, and Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert, 1651. A list of thirteen miscellaneous books sold by him in 1651 occupies one leaf following the dedicatory epistle to L. Lessius' Sir W. Rawleighs Ghost.
HOLEMAN (WILLIAM), bookseller (?) in London; near the stairs, next to the Black-Swan in Wapping, 1666. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled, Horne (Henry), Perfect and Compleat Bel-man, 1666. [Douce Coll.]
HOLMER (THOMAS), printer in London, 1641. In the Commons Journals (vol. ii., p. 160), under date May 27th, 1641, is an order that Thomas Holmer, who was committed to the Gatehouse for printing an Elegy upon the Earl of Strafford, which was considered to be scandalous, should be admitted to bail. No master printer of this name is known, and Holmer was probably a journeyman. There are two broadsides in the British Museum of this date with the imprint. Printed in the year 1641. The first, entitled The Earl of Strafford his Ellegaick Poem as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death, and the second Verses lately written by Thomas Earle of Strafford. [C. 20, f. 2 (6) (7).] It was perhaps the first of these that was referred to in the order.
HOMER (T.), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. Associated with J. Jackson and G. Tomlinson. He was the publisher of numerous political pamphlets, and may be identical with the preceding. His address has not been found.
HOOD (HENRY), bookseller in London; St. Dunstan's Churchyard, 1636-54. Took up his freedom July 1st, 1635. [Arber, iii 687.] Believed to have married the widow of Richard More or Moore, who carried on business at this address until his death in 1631. On May 12th, 1641, John More or Moore, the son of Richard, received from his mother the assignment of his father's copies, and the same day assigned them to Henry Hood. [Stationers' Registers, 1641.]
