BOULTER (ROBERT), bookseller in London, (1) Turk's Head in Cornhill, 1666; (2) Turk's Head in Bishopsgate Street, near the Great James, 1667. Was one of the three publishers of the first edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, 1667. The first imprint given above is found on the title-page of one of the Rev. T. Doolittle's treatises on the great plague published in 1666, and the second in an edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's Judicious and select Essays, published by him in 1667.
BOURDEN, see Burden.
BOURKE (THOMAS), printer at Waterford and Kilkenny, Ireland, 1643-48. The authorised official printer of the Catholic Confederation. Sir J. T. Gilbert describes him as a "native printer." In 1643 he is found at Waterford, where he continued until 1645, when he appears to have moved to Kilkenny, where in that year was printed Henry Burkhead's A tragedy of Cola's Furie or Lirenda's Miserie, of which there is a unique copy in the British Museum. The books that came from the Kilkenny press bore no printer's name, but Bourke's name is found on a broadside printed there entitled Declaration by the Confederate Catholics' Council, 1648. [Library N.S., October, 1901. Irish Provincial Printing, by E. R. McC. Dix.]
BOURNE (NICHOLAS), bookseller in London; South entrance. Royal Exchange [Cornhill], 1601–57. Son of Henry Bourne, citizen and cordwainer of London, put himself apprentice to Cuthbert Burby, bookseller, for seven years from March 25th, 1601. Burby died between August 24th and September 16th, 1607, and by his will left Nicholas Bourne the offer of his stock on favourable terms and gave him the lease of the premises in Cornhill in consideration of his true and faithful service. Mistress Burby assigned over her late husband's copyrights to Nicholas Bourne on October 16th, 1609. These consisted mainly of theological works, and we have it on the evidence of John Bellamy, q.v. one of his apprentices, that he would not allow them to sell play-books [see A Justification of the City Remonstrance and its Vindication, E. 350. (23).] Nicholas Bourne was Master of the Company in 1643 and again in 1651. He died in 1657. [Plomer, Wills, p. 42.] A list of 58 books, etc, printed for him occurs at the end of Robert Witbie's Popular Errours', 1651, 8°. [B.M. E. 1227.] It contains a few works relating to English trade and fishery rights.
