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DAVIES—DAWKES.

DAVIES (THOMAS) bookseller in London, (1) Bible, over against the little North Door of St. Pauls Church, 1659; (2) Bible near North Door of St. Pauls, 1660; (3) Bible in St. Pauls Churchyard. 1656-60. Son of Humphrey Davies, of Cranbury, co. Warwick, gent., apprentice to William Holden for seven years from November 4th, 1641. Issued in partnership with Simon Miller and J. Crooke Parivale's History of the Iron Age, 1659, folio, a work notable for the portraits it contains. At the end is a list of ten books, chiefly theological, issued by him. He also dealt in school books. In 1660 Thedore Sadler, q.v., joined him.

DAVIS (E), bookseller (?) in London, 1662. This name is found in the following book; Audley (Hugh), The Way to be Rich … 1662.

DAVIS (JAMES) bookseller in London; Greyhound St. Paul's Churchyard, 1660-62. Published masques and plays on the subject of the Restoration. [Hazlitt, H. 513; I. 371.]

DAVIS (JAMES), bookseller in London; Little Britain, 1656. Only known from the entry in Smyth's Obituary, p. 43: "Augt 9th. [1656.] James bookseller in Little Britain, buried."

DAVIS (RICHARD), bookseller at Oxford; near Oriell College, 1646-88. A list of 25 books sold by this bookseller will be found on the last leaf of Zach. Bogan's Meditations or the mirth of a Christian Life. [1653.] This consists of classical, scientific and religious works, with one play, The Amorous War.

DAWES (GEORGE), bookseller in London; White Horse, over against Lincoln's Inn Gate in Chancery Lane, 1665-66. Dealer in law books.

DAWKES or DAWKS (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1635-67. Took up his freedom October 5th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.] In 1642 Felix Kyngston printed for him Humfry Vincent's Professours Hurt to Profession. [Harl, 5927 (106).] A Thomas Dawkes "printer" is noted in Arber's Term Catalogues as printing at various addresses in London between 1679 and 1689. This may be the same man.