Publications of Will. 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."

Printed for Will. Crook

  • Addison, Lancelot. The first state of Mahumedism, being an exact account of Mahomed, the author of the Turkish religion. His prophesies about his coming, pedigree, parents, tribe, birth, education, marriages, filthiness of life, pretended revelation, retirement, collections and composure o his Alcoran, of his conventicles at Mecca, where he gained his first proselytes, &c. Likewise a relation of his disputes with the Jews, of his wars, of the propagation of his doctrines, of his paradises and miracles, with the remarkable passages of his death. To which is added the state and condition Christendom and Christianity was in at that time. The second edition. By the author of The present state of the Jews. London: printed for Will. Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1687. ESTC No. R10857. Grub Street ID 59197.