BROME (HENRY) bookseller in London, (1) Hand, in Paul's Churchyard, 1657; (2) Gun, Ivy Lane, 1660-66; (3) Gun, St. Paul's Churchyard, or (4) Gun in Ludgate Street at the West End of Paul's, 1669; (5) Star, Little Britain, 1666–69. Publisher of broadsides, poems, plays, and general literature. According to the best authorities he was in no way related to Alexander or Richard Brome, the playwrights, though he published the works of both of them, and wrote a preface to Richard Brome's play The Queens Exchange. A list of 42 works published by him in 1664 will be found at the end of the Songs and Poems of Alex. Brome, which he published in that year. Another list for the year 1667 was issued with Sir P. Rycant's Present State of the Ottoman Empire, of which there is a unique copy—once belonging to Samuel Pepys—in Magdalene College, Cambridge. The date of his death is unknown, but he left a son, Henry, who succeeded him in business.
BROOKE (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London, (1) Angel, Cornhill; (2) At the Angel, in the second yard going into the Exchange from Bishopsgate Street 1646–77. This bookseller must not be confused with Nathan Brooks, who was tried and convicted at the Old Bailey in 1664 for publishing seditious books. An extensive list of Nathaniel Brooke's publications will be found in Gray's Index to Hazlitt.
BROOKE (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, 1661. Hazlitt records the three following works as bearing this bookseller's name: Catalogue of Peeres of the Realm, 1661; Will. Ramsay, Man's Dignity, 1661; Perfect List of the Knights, 1661; none of which appear to be in the British Museum. [Hazlitt, ii. 86, 511; iii. 188.]
BROOKE (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Black Swan Inne Yard in Holborn, 1661. Publisher of a curious romance entitled The Princess Gloria or the Royal Romance, 1661, the unsold copies of which were reissued in 1665 by Edward Man.
BROOKS (NATHAN) (?) bookseller in London; Bunhill near Moor Fields next door to the Feathers, 1664. Must not be confused with Nathaniel Brooke, bookseller. He was perhaps the Nathan Brookes, son of Edward Brookes, of Onelip, co. Leicester, who was apprenticed to Randall Taylor for 8 years from March 25th, 1650. [Stationers' Register of Apprentice-
