presented before the Portuguese Ambassador upon March 26th, 1653, and apparently printed before the end of that year, has the imprint, "London: Printed according to the Authors own Copy, by T. W. for J. Crook and J. Baker, at the sign of the Ship in St. Paul's Church yard, 1653." There was another bookseller of this name.
BAKER (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Peacock in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1659–66; (2) Peacock in Little Britain, 1667–70; (3) Three Pigeons, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1670–84. The Register of Apprenticeships at Stationers' Hall records a John Baker, son of Michael Baker, stationer, as bound to George Thomason on September 6th, 1647. He was out of his time in 1655. In 1659, in partnership with Edward Brewster, he published a Greek edition of Hesiod for the use of schools, which was printed for them by D. Maxwell. The title-page, printed in red and black, is preserved in the Ames Collection of title-pages in the British Museum, No. 2867.
BALDEN (RICHARD), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. His name occurs on the title-page of a pamphlet entitled An Uprore at Portsmouth, 1642. [Hazlitt, ii. 489.] His place of business is not indicated.
BALEY (T), see Bailey (T.).
BALLARD (WILLIAM), bookseller in Bristol; Bible in Com Street, 1651–53. His name is found on Robert Purnell's Way to Heaven discovered, 1653. [E. 1489 (2).] He was a dealer in Welsh books. [Rowland's Cambrian Bibliograpy, p. 156.]
BANKS (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Blackfriars, on the top of Bridewell Stairs; (2) In the Old Bailey, 1641; (3) At the sign of the Seal in Westminster Hall, 1641–49. Took up his freedom on June 26th, 1637. [Arber, iii. 688.] Dealt chiefly in theological and political tracts and broadsides. In 1647 and at other times he had a stall in Westminster Hall, distinguished by the sign of the "Seal," and he was associated with another stall-holder there. Mistress Breach, in the publication of the Rev. John Cotton's Controversie concerning liberty of conscience, 1649. [Library, N.S., October, 1905, pp. 382-3.]
