Publications of W. Crook

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."

Sold by W. Crook

  • Maynwaringe, Everard. The mystery of curing comprehensively, explained and proved, argumentatively & practically in three parts. Approved the most useful, commodious and comprehensive expedient; against surprising painful diseases; and secret decays of human nature. By Everard Maynwaringe, M.D. Second impression, revised and augmented.. London: printed; and sold by W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar; and J. Everingham, at the Star in Ludgate-street, booksellers, 1694. ESTC No. R217777. Grub Street ID 92525.

Printed for W. Crook

  • The historians guide: or, Englands remembrancer. Being a summary account of all the actions, exploits, sieges, &c. and other remarkable passages, that hath happened in his Majesties dominions. From the year 1600. until the year 1679. Shewing the year, month, and day, whe each action was done. The second edition, corrected from a great many mistakes and errors in the former, also additions in every year, and almost every month, with the continuation to this time.. London: printed for W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1679. ESTC No. R12591. Grub Street ID 60755.