A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Helder (Thomas)

by Henry Robert Plomer

HELDER (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Angel in Little Britain, 1666-85. In 1667 he issued an edition of a very popular book of humour called Wits Recreations, or Recreations for Ingenious Headpieces, but he is chiefly remembered as one of the booksellers whose name appeared on the 1669 title-page of Paradise Lost. His name is first met with in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, where he is returned as having three hearths. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, 252/32.]