BARTLET (JOHN), the Younger, bookseller in London, Westminster Hall, 1657. His name is found in the imprint to a broadside entitled An Elegy on the death of the Rt. Hon. Robert Blake, Esq., 1657. [Lutt Coll. I, 10.] Several other books have the Bartlets' Westminster Hall imprint between this date and 1660, and the stall was probably jointly held by father and son. [Library, N.S., October, 1905, pp. 384-5.]
BARWICK (HENRY), bookseller (?) in London, 16412. A pamphlet entitled The Prince of Orange his Royall Entertainment to the Queen of England … [E. 138 (17)] bears the imprint "First imprinted at the Hague in Holland, and now Reprinted in London for Henrie Barwicke 1641."
BASSET (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street; (2) George, near St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street; (3) Westminster Hall, 1659-93. A dealer in law books, chiefly remembered for the Catalogue of Law Books which he published in 1673. Jacob Tonson was one of his apprentices. A list of 13 books published by him in 1659 follows the preface to Hermaelogium, or An Essay at the rationality of the art of Speaking, 1659. 8°.
BATEMAN (THOMAS), bookseller (?) in London, 1659. His name occurs in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled: Letter from Maj. Genl. Massey to an Hon. Person in London, 1659. 4°.
BATES (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Maidenhead on Snow Hill, Holborn Conduit, 1645; (2) Old Bailey. 1640-47. May probably be identified with the person of that name whose address is given in a contemporary pamphlet as Bishop's Court, in the Old Bailey, and at whose house, in 1641, there was a dispute between Henry Walker the ironmonger and a Jesuit. He was the publisher of much popular literature, broadsides, ballads, and lampoons, as well as many political pamphlets. On December 13th, 1641, he, in company with John Wright, sen., published the Diurnal or the Heads of all the Proceedings in Parliament. Another news-sheet which they produced was Mercurius Civicus, probably the first illustrated newspaper, its front page having every week a portrait of some celebrity. It began on May 4th, 1643, and ended on December 10th, 1646, quite a long life for a news-sheet Bates and Wright were also the
