DOD (EDWARD), bookseller in London; Gun in Ivie Lane, 1646-57. In partnership with Nath. Ekins, q.v. They were the publishers of several of Sir Thomas Browne's writings. A list of 17 books on sale by them in 1657 occurs at the end of R. Bayfield's Bulwarke of Truth, published in that year. Amongst them is an edition of Lovelace's Poems and a work entitled America, by N. N. gent.
DOVER (J.), printer; St. Bartholomew's Close, 1664-65. This may have been the widow and probably the successor of Simon Dover. The imprint is found in a medical work by William Drage of Hitchin, entitled A Physical Nosonomy, which has a second title-page entitled Daimonomageia A Small treatise of sicknesses & Diseases from Witchcraft, 1665. [B.M. 776, g. 3.]
DOVER (SIMON), printer in London, 1660-64. Tried at the Old Bailey in February, 16634, with John Twyn, Thomas Brewster, and Nathan Brooks. Dover's crime was printing a pamphlet entitled The Speeches of some of the late King's Justices. He was condemned to pay a fine of 100 marks, to stand in the pillory on two successive days, and to remain a prisoner during the King's pleasure. He is believed to have died in April, 1664, shortly after his conviction. [An exact Narrative of the Tryal … of John Twyn … 1664; The Newes, April 28th, 1664.]
DOWSE (ANTHONY), bookseller in London; Little Britain, 1641-72. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 95, says: "8th April [1672.] Mr. Anthony Dowse stationer in Little Britain, died this day before noone; buried at St. Butolph's Aldersgate ye 13th, Dr. Meriton preached at his funerall." He is also mentioned in the will of Richard Cotes. No books have been found with his name.
DOWNES (THOMAS) bookseller in London; Irish Warehouse Stationers Hall, 1609-58. Brother of Bartholomew Downes, bookbinder, who died in December, 1636. Appears to have had a share in the Irish Stock of the Company of Stationers. No books are found entered to him in the Registers after 1631, but in the University Library, Cambridge, there is a book dated 1635 bearing his address. He was Master of the Stationers' Company in 1642 and again in 1648. He died on February 19th, 16578, without issue [Smyth's Obituary, p. 46], and his will was proved on
