BURDET (SAMUEL), bookseller (?) in London, 1660. Only known from the imprint to a broadside entitled The Phanaticks Plot Discovered [August 9th], 1660. [B.M. f. 25 (67).]
BURROUGHS (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Golden Dragon neare the Inner Temple-Gate; (2) Next door to the King's Head in Fleet-Street. 1641-52. Associated with John Franke. They were chiefly publishers of theological and political pamphlets. John Burroughs was clerk to the Company of Stationers in 1652. [Arber, v. lxxv.]
BURTON (RICHARD), bookseller in London. (1) Horseshoe West Smithfield; (2) Horseshoe at the hospitall gate in Smithfield. 1641-74. Took up his freedom November 2nd, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] Chiefly a publisher of ballads. [Bibl. Lind. Catalogue of a collection of English Ballads, 45, 786, 821, 997.]
BURTON (SIMON), bookseller in London; Next the Mitre taverne, within Algate, 1640-41. Only known from the imprint to Richard Crashawe's Visions or Hel's Kingdome, a translation from the Visions of Quevado. Hazlitt records [iii. 62] another translation from the same author, under the title of Hell Reformed, issued by the same publisher in 1641.
BUTLER (JAMES), bookseller (?) in London, 1644. Known only by a broadside entitled Two Imcomparable Generalissimos. [Hazlitt, H. 667.]
BUTLER (ROBERT), bookseller in London; Gray's Inn Gate, 1663. Only known from an advertisement in Mercurius Publicus, June 4th, 1663.
BUTLER (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Lincoln's Inn Fields near the Three Tuns by the Market Place, 1656-59. Published two books by William Blake, the author of Silver Drops, viz., The Yellow Book, 1656, and Trial of the Ladies, 1657.
BUTTER (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London, (1) Pyde Bull, St. Austins Gate, 1608; (2) Cursitors Alley, 1660. (1605-64). The son of Thomas Butter (1581-90). Admitted a freeman February 20th, 16034. [Arber, ii. 736.] Entered his first publication in the registers December 4th, 1604. Two editions of King Lear bear his name and the date 1608, one without any address and the other with that of the Pyde Bull. That
