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JENKINS (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Next the Eagle and Child, Giltspur Street, 1656. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Englands Golden Legacy … Written by Laurence Price. London … 1656.

JENNER (THOMAS), bookseller, printseller and engraver in London, (1) At the White beare in Cornewell [i.e., Cornhill]; (2) At the White Beare neare the exchange; (3) South Entrance to the Royall Exchange. 1623-66. Dealer in all kinds of illustrated books and pamphlets, maps and prints. He was himself an engraver, amongst his work being portraits of Oliver Cromwell and Queen Christina of Sweden, an etching of a ship called "The Sovereign of the Seas," and presumably a set of plates for a work dealing with the twelve months.

JOHNSON (EDWARD), bookseller in London, 1642-3. Publisher of political pamphlets. [Hazlitt, Handbook, 526, 638.] His address has not been found.

JOHNSON (JAMES), bookseller in London, 1660 (?)-1663 (?). Publisher of political broadsides and pamphlets. His address has not been found.

JOHNSON (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1642-7. Publisher of political pamphlets. His address has not been found.

JOHNSON (MARMADUKE), bookseller and printer in London, 1660. Publisher of political pamphlets. Subsequently went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a printer, where he worked in the same building as Samuel Green. He died in 1675. [Plomer, Short History, p. 219.] He was the author of a work entitled Ludgate what it is not, what it was, which was entered in the Registers by Thomas Johnson, q.v. It was reprinted by Strype in his Survey of London & Westminster, 1755.

JOHNSON (SALOMON), bookseller in London, 1641. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled The Generous usurer Mr. Nevell. [Hazlitt, Handbook, 415.]

JOHNSON (THOMAS), printer in London, (1) Key or Golden Key, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1661-4; (2) White Cock, Rood Lane, Margaret Pattens (St. Dunstans in the East), 1660-6 (1642-77). In the survey taken in 1668 he is returned as having two presses and three workmen.