Among the early booksellers was Richard Grafton, who was printer, bookseller, and author as well. He reprinted and continued Hall’s _Chronicles_. Other publishers and booksellers of the sixteenth century were Robert Redman, who quarrelled with Richard Pynson; Henry Pepwell, who died in 1539; John Day, for whom John Foxe, who wrote the _Book of Martyrs_, worked. He issued a Church music book. He also published Bibles, Sermons, and A B C’s. Day had shops successively in Holborn, Aldersgate Street, and St. Paul’s Churchyard. William Middleton, whose shop was in Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan’s Church, was both printer and bookseller. He published Heywood’s _Four P’s_, and an edition of Froissart. Henry Smyth, Redman’s son-in-law, was the publisher of Littleton’s _Tenures_. Richard Tottell, whose shop was within Temple Bar, published Tusser’s _Hundred Good Points of Agriculture_, Grafton’s _Abridgment of the Chronicles of England_, and Stow’s _Summary of the Chronicles of England_. Harrison of St. Paul’s Churchyard published Shakespeare’s _Venus and Adonis_ in 1593, but it was printed by Richard Field, a fellow-townsman of the poet. In 1594 Harrison published _The Rape of Lucrece_. The publication of the plays, however, belongs mostly to the seventeenth century. But _Romeo and Juliet_, _Richard II._, _Richard III_, _Henry IV._ Part I., _Love’s Labours Lost_, were published at this time, and in 1600 _Henry IV._ Part II., _Much Ado About Nothing_, _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, _The Merchant of Venice_, _Titus Andronicus_, and _Henry V._ all came out. In all, eleven of the plays were published in the sixteenth and the rest in the seventeenth century. There was an astonishing number of printers and booksellers. Thus, in addition to the names mentioned above, we may note those of Middleton, Richard Field, Harrison, father and son, William Leake, Wise, Aspley, Ling, and Nathaniel Butler, Ponsonby, Edward White, Cadman, Burby, Warde, William Barley, Humphrey Hooper, John Budge, Thorpe, and Norton. Already the bitterness of the author against the publisher has begun. Drayton speaks of the booksellers as “a company of base knaves, whom I scorn and kick at.” Complaint was made concerning a book called _A Petite Palace of Petties his Pleasure_ (1576), that the printer had suppressed the name of the author, and his preface, and had substituted his own name with a preface by himself. Again, the authors complained of the advertising tricks employed to increase the sale of a book. Thus, Ben Jonson addresses his bookseller:—