HELDERSHAM (FRANCIS), bookseller (?) in London, 1649. Only known from a warrant granted by the Council of State on July 13th, 1649, to Serjeant Dendy to apprehend Francis Heldersham and Martha Harrison, for printing and publishing a seditious libel called Pragmaticus. The actual printing was done by William Ellis, q.v. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649-50, p. 541.]
HERNE, see Hearne (R.).
HERON, see Hearne (R.).
HERRICK, or HEYRICK (SAMUEL), bookseller in London; Gray's Inn Gate in Holborn, 1662-7. Mentioned in an advertisement in Mercurius Publicus, March 27th, 1662. His name occurs on John Dover's play, The Roman Generall; or the Distressed Ladies … 1667. [B.M. 644, d. 80.]
HERRINGMAN (HENRY), bookseller in London; Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1653-93. Next to Humphrey Moseley, the most important bookseller in the period covered by this dictionary. He was the son of John Herringman, of Kessalton [i.e. Carshalton], in Surrey, yeoman, and was apprenticed to Abell Roper, bookseller of Fleet Street, for eight years from August 1st, 1644. [Register of Apprenticeships, Stationers' Hall.] His first book entry, which curiously enough follows one by his great contemporary Moseley, was Sir Kenelm Digby's Short Treatise of Adhearing to God, written by Albert the Great, entered on September 19th, 1653, and he followed this on October 12th in the same year with Lord Broghall's Parthenissa, a Romance. At the time of Moseley's death in 1661, Herringman possessed copyrights of books by Sir Kenelm Digby and James Howell, and many of Sir R. Davenant's pre-Restoration operas. He was Dryden's publisher, and in 1663 acquired the copyright of Cowley's poems, and in the following year the copyright of Waller's poems, which he obtained no doubt by purchase from Moseley's widow. Herringman was also an extensive publisher of plays and all the lighter literature of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods. His shop was the chief literary lounging place in London, and is frequently referred to in Pepys' Diary. Herringman also held a share in the King's
