Miscellaneous Works
Among the varied products of Butter's enterprise, his editions of George Chapman's translations of Homer — the Iliad in 1611, and the Odyssey in 1614 — stand out.
And in his long career, Butter published a wide range of other material: from joke books like The Cobbler of Canterbury (1608), to Tobias Gentleman's England's Way to Win Wealth, and to Employ Ships and Mariners (1614]), to religious works like Abraham Darcy's The Original of Idolatries (1624), to polemics like Joseph Hall's An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament (1640) — and virtually everything in between.
After 1642, Butter declined into obscurity. According to his terse 1664 obituary, "Nath: Butter an old stationer, died very poore."
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