WALKER (HENRY), bookseller in London, 1641-2. Better known as Walker the Ironmonger. John Taylor, the water poet, wrote a biography of him in 1642, in which he declared that Walker was apprenticed to an ironmonger, and for some years followed that trade, but eventually gave it up to become a bookseller and writer of pamphlets, of which he published as many as four or five hundred thousand copies. Amongst these was one entitled To your tents, O Israel! a copy of which he flung into the King's carriage. For this he and the printer were sent to the King's Bench Prison in Southwark, but were subsequently rescued by the mob when on their way to Newgate. After a long hue and cry Walker was recaptured and sent to the Tower. He then made submission. [The Whole Life and Progress of Henry Walker the Ironmonger … Collected and written by John Taylor, 1642. 12th July. [E. 154 (29).]
WALKER (JOHN), bookseller in London; Starre in Pope's Head Alley, 1648-50. A stationer of this name took up his freedom October 4th, 1619, but this is probably a different man. His name is found on the imprint to the following pamphlet: Mercurius Anti-mechanicus, Or, The Simple Cobler's Boy … By Theodore de la Guarden [i.e., Nath. Ward], London, 1648. [E. 470 (25).]
WALKER (MATHIAS), bookseller in London; (1) 3 Hearts, West End of Pauls, 1664; (2) Under St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1667. Chiefly remembered as one of the publishers of the first edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, in 1667. His earlier address is found in A. Gordon's Tyrocynium Linguæ Latinæ 1664. [Arber's Term Catalogue vol. i., index.]
WALKLEY (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Eagle and Child, Britain's Burse; (2) Flying Horse, near York House. 1619-58. Took up his freedom January 19th, 1618. On December 1st, 1649, a warrant was issued against him for dispersing scandalous declarations sent from the late King's sons at Jersey. [Calendar of Domestic State Papers, 1649-50, p. 557.] He was the publisher of Sir J. Denham's Coopers Hill, 1642, Waller's Poems, 1647, and much other interesting literature.
WALL (THOMAS), bookseller in Bristol. By the Tolezy in Cornstreet, 1660. Published a sermon entitled, Plain dealing and Plain meaning … Preacht in the parish church of St. Nicholas, Bristol, April 6th, 1660. [E. 1026 (5).]
