Publications of John Crooke

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for John Crooke

  • Taylor, Jeremy. Chrisis telei?tik?. A discourse of confirmation. For the use of the clergy and instruction of the people of Ireland. By Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down. Publish'd by order of convocation. And dedicated to His Grace James Duke, Marques and Earl of Ormonde, &c. Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of His Majesties kingdom of Ireland,. Dublin: printed for John Crooke, printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer next door to the Beare and Ragged-staffe in Castle-street, 1663. ESTC No. R11419. Grub Street ID 59707.