WALLEY, or WALEY (HENRY), bookseller in London; Harts Horn in Foster Lane (?) 1608-55. Grandson of John Walley, or Waley, stationer of London, 1546-86, son of Robert Walley, or Waley, stationer of London, 1578-93. Clerk of the Company of Stationers, 1630-1640. Master of the Company of Stationers in 1655. [Arber, v. 271.]
WALLEY (JOSEPH), bookseller in London, 1666. Stated in a document of that date to be "a great factor for the sectaries." [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, 121, 372.] He was possibly a son of the preceding and in business with him.
WALLIS (ELISHA), bookseller in London, (1) Three Black Lyons in the Old Bayley, 1656; (2) At the [Golden] Horse-shoe in the [Great] Old Bayley, 1656-61. His name is found on the imprint to an edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1660.
WALTON (ROBERT), printer and print seller in London; Globe and Compasses in St. Paul's Churchyard, between the two north doors, 1647-60. Dealer in maps and prints, and the publisher of Edward Cocker's The Pen's Triumph, 1660. A catalogue of prints, etc., on sale by him is given at the end of A compendious view … of the whole world, 1659. It is called "a catalogue of some pleasant and useful maps and pictures that are cut in copper, being very neat ornaments for houses, gentlemen's studies and closets, and useful for divers callings, as Painters, Embroyderers, &c." His name is variously given as Walters, Waltor, and Walton.
WARD (FRANCIS), bookseller in Leicester, 1661-3. Gave information against the London bookseller Nathan Brooks for dispersing a book entitled The Year of Prodigies and Wonders. October, 1661. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 43, 7, 8, 9.] Mentioned in an advertisement of patent medicines in the Intelligencer of 1663.
WARREN (ALICE), printer in London; Foster Lane (?), 1661-2. Widow of Thomas Warren, printer. Her name is found on the imprint to the second volume of Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, 1661, and the same author's History of imbanking, 1662.
WARREN (FRANCIS and THOMAS), printers in London; Foster Lane, 1663-6. Possibly the sons of Thomas Warren, senr., and Alice Warren. They are mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady
