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JUNIUS (JAMES), see Young (James).

KELS (R.), (?) bookseller in London, 1653. Only known from the imprint to a broadside entitled Lillies Banquet, or the star gazer's feast. London: Printed for R. Kels, 1653.

KEMBE (ANDREW), bookseller in London, (1) By St. Margaret's Hill in long Southwarke, 1636; (2) St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, 1642; (3) St. Margarets Hill, near the Talbot in Southwark. 1635-64. Took up his freedom June 7th, 1631. [Arber, iii. 686.] Under the year 1653, May 17th, Smyth records the death of "Mr. Kemm bookseller in Duck Lane." [Obituary, p. 34.] No books with a Duck Lane imprint and bearing Andrew Kembe's name have been found, but if the entry relates to him then the above list of imprints must be revised, and those books dated after 1653 must be held to have been published by his successor, possibly a son. A list of eight books published by Andrew Kembe in 1664 is given at the end of Palladine of England, 1664. [B.M. 12450, d. 7.]

KEMM (), bookseller in London; Duck Lane, 1653. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 34, under date May 17th, 1653, has the following entry: "Mr. Kemm, bookseller in Duck Lane, died." This may refer to Andrew Kembe.

KENDAL (G.), bookseller (?) in London; near the Old Bayly, 1663. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Merry Newes from Epsom Wells, 1663. [Hazlitt, iii. 242.]

KEYNTON (MATTHEW), bookseller in London; Fountain in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1656. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled: Stephens (Nath.) Plain and Easie calculation, 1659. [Harl. 5965 (158).]

KINGSTON, or KYNGSTON (FELIX), printer in London, (1) Over against the sign of the checker, Paternoster Row, 1603 [Sayle, p. 604]; (2) In Pater-Noster-Row, at the Signe of the Gilded Cock, 1644. 1597-1651. Son of John Kingston, printer, 1553-84. Originally a member of the Company of Grocers, from which he was transferred to the Company of Stationers and admitted a freeman June 25th, 1597. [Arber, ii. 718.] According to Sir John Lambe's notes he succeeded his father in 1615, in