Booksellers and the Great Fire of London

A retailer or vendor of books.

"He dissected a Bookseller, and found his heart more then halfe rotted away."

Helkiah Crooke, A description of the body of man (1615).

"This day, coming home, Mr. Kirton's kinsman, my bookseller, come in my way. He do believe all the great booksellers almost undone: not only these, but their warehouses at their Hall and under Christchurch and elsewhere being all burned. A great want thereof there will be of books, specially Latin books and foreign books."

Samuel Pepys, Diary (October 5, 1666).