to furnish octavo Bibles with marginal notes better printed and corrected than any other edition at two shillings per volume as against the official price of 4s. 6d. He further stated that he had already finished five several editions. Two of these, dated 1646 and 1648, are amongst those in the collection of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In 1659 William Kilburne wrote a pamphlet entitled Dangerous errors in several late printed Bibles, which was printed at the Finsbury press, and was clearly written as a puff. See Field (John).
BERRIMAN (THOMAS), bookseller (?) in London; Great St. Bartholomews, 1642. Exceeding Joyfull Newes from the Earl of Bedford, 1642 [E. 113 (17)] has the imprint, "London printed, for Thomas Berriman dwelling in Great St. Bartholomew, August 23, 1642."
BEST (JOHN), printer in London; Three Crowns, Giltspur Street, 1660-65. A printer of broadsides, ballads, and popular literature. In 1664 he printed for William Crook The History of the Life and Martyrdom of St. George … by Thomas Lowick, gent; Geo. Swinnock's Christian-Man's-Calling, 1663-65, and a broadside, The King's Majestys Love to London [London's modest answer]. [B.M. C. 20 f. 2 (60).]
BEST (RICHARD), bookseller in London; Gray's Inn, Holborn, 1640-53. Took up his freedom March 30th, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] He dealt chiefly in political pamphlets and law books, but amongst them is found Jo. Tatham's Fancies Theatre, 1640.
BIARD (JOHN), bookseller (?) in London, 1643. This name occurs in the imprint to a political squib, printed without date, but probably in 1643, A Brief Dialogue between Zelotophit … and Superstition … London. Printed for John Biard. [E. 140 (5).]
BILCLIFFE (JOSEPH), bookseller in London; Great Piazza, Covent Garden, 1661-63. Mentioned in "Mercurius Publicus" for April, 1661, as agent for certain "lozenges." He was also an agent for the receipt of letters for the Postmaster-General, but from a notice that appears in Mercurius Publicus of June 18th, 1663, he seems to have abused his trust.
