BLAKELOCK, see Blaiklock.
BLOME (JACOB), bookseller in London; Knight Rider Street, 1619-61. Took up his freedom March 26th, 1618. [Arber, iii. 688.] Was originally in partnership with George Edwards, but on June 4th, 1621, they assigned over their copies to Geo. Hodges. [Arber, iv. 54.] In 1631 Blome obtained from Ralph Mabb the copyright of Guillim's Display of Heraldry, but he does not seem to have re-issued it until 1660.
BLUNDEN (HUMPHREY), bookseller in London; Castle in Cornhill, 1635-52. Took up his freedom June 15th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 688.] Before the Civil War he is found publishing plays and books of a popular character. In 1639 he issued Robert Davenport's comedy, New Trick to cheat the Devill; and in 1640 J. Johnson's Academy of Love. During the Civil War he issued a large number of political pamphlets, and was associated with John Partridge in the publication of many of the writings of William Lilly, the astrologer. But his chief claim to notice at that period was as editor of a news-sheet called Speciall Passages and certain informations from several places, the first number of which appeared on August 16th, 1642. It became popularly known as "Blunden's Passages" [Mercurius Civicus, June 8th, 1643.] Nothing more is heard of him after 1652.
BOAT (MARMADUKE), bookseller in London, 1642. Took up his freedom August 4th, 1640. [Arber, iii, 688.] Associated with Andrew Coe in publishing Master Pyms Speech in Parliament [March 17th], 1641. 4°. [B.M. E. 200 (37)], and Master Hollis his Speech in Parliament, March 21st, 1642. His address has not been found.
BODDINGTON (GEORGE), bookseller in London; In Chancery lain neer Serjants-Inn. 1648. His name is found on the imprint to James Beaumont's Psyche or Loves Mysterie, a poem printed in folio by John Dawson in 1648.
BODVELL or BODRELL (PETER), bookseller in London and Chester. 1664-70. Was apprenticed to Thomas Brewster, q.v., and was one of the witnesses at his trial in February, 1664. [See An Exact Narrative, B.M. 1132, b. 57.] He is mentioned again in some Chancery proceedings brought by the Stationers' Company against certain Chester booksellers in the year 1699. John Minshull, one of the defendants, stated that he was
