Eliphal Jaye

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 36737

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Auctioneer

Dates

  • Freedom: 1691

Eliphal Jaye, stationer, bookseller at the Bible on the north side of the Royal Exchange, 1691; at the Golden Candlestick in Cheapside, 1702; near Mercer's Chapel, 1703.

This Day is published,
     The New Quevado: Or, a Vision of Charon's Passengers, from the Creation of the World down to this present Yeat 1702. with their Names, Qualities and Particular Crimes. A Work never attempted before in English. Price 1s. Sold by Eliz. Mallet, near Fleetbridge.
     THE great Duty of Communicating explain'd and enforc'd, the Objections against it answer'd; and the necessary Preparation for it stated; with Devotions to be us'd Before, At, and After the Lord's Supper. By the Reverend Sir Willam Dawes, Bar. Price 3 d. or 20 s. a Hundred to those that give them away; being a very useful Book to be given do ordinary People, at this general Time, appointed by the Church, of Receiving the Holy Sacrament at Easter. The Duties of the Closet: Being an Earnest Exhortation to Private Devotion. Pr. ? s. 6 d. And all his other Books are sold at the same Place. Sold by Tho. Speed, over against Jonathan's Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley in Cornhill; at which Place Receipts for the Land-Tax and Trophy-Tax are sold.
     THE present State of the Universe: Or, An Account of, 1. The Rise, Birth, Names, Matches, Children, and near Allies of all the present chief Princes of the World. 2. Their Coats of Arms, Motto's, Devices, Liveries, Religions and Languages. 3. The Names of the Chief Towns, with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants, their chief Seats of Pleasure and other remarkable Things in their Dominions. 4. Their Revenues, Power and Strength. 5. Their respective Stiles and Titles or Appellations. Also an Account of Commonwealths, relating to the same Hands. The 3d Ed. continued and enlarged: With the Effigies of all the Crown'd Heads of Europe, as also the various Bearings of their several Ships at Sea. Price 2 s. 6 d. Mr. Ward's Works in one entire Vol. The London Spy's Compleat, in 18 Parts. By the same Author. All sold by E. Jaye, at the Golden Candiestick, the Lower-End of Cheapside.

Flying Post, 2–4 April 1702

THE Present State of the Universe:
Or, An Account of, 1. The Rise, Births, Names, Matches, Children, and near Allies, of all the present chief Princes of the World: 2. Their Coats of Arms, Mottoes, Devices, Liveries, Religions and Languages. 3. The names of their chief Towns, with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants; their chief Seats of Pleasure, and other remarkable things in their Dominions: 4. Their Revenues, Power and Strength: 5. Their respective Stiles and Titles, or Appellations: Also, an account of Common-wealths relating to the same Heads. The Third Edition, continued and inlarged; with the Effigies of all the Crowned Heads of Europe: As also the various Bearings of their several Ships at Sea. London Printed, and Sold by E. Jaye, at the Golden Candlestick near Mercer's-Chappel in Cheapside. Where are to be had Mr. Ward's Works bound in one Voll. or his London-Spies bound alone.

The London Post, with Intelligence Foreign and Domestick, 4 November 1702

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

JAYE (ELIPHAL), bookseller in London, (i) Bible on the north side of the Royal Exchange, 1691; (2) Golden Candlestick in Cheapside, 1702; (3) near Mercer's Chapel, 1703. 1691–1703. Advertised Sir Edward Sadler's History of the Jacobites in Mich. 1691. [T.C. 11.381.] He was the publisher of Edward Ward's Writings in 1702 [T.C. III. 300–1], and of two of the Rev. Richard Taylor's theological tracts in 1703. [T.C. in. 365.] He sometimes held book auctions. [London Gazette, August 9th–13th, 1694.]