Robert Tookey (fl. 17001728)

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Occupations

  • Printer
  • Printer / Publisher

Robert Tookey, printer behind the Royal Exchange, 1695?–1724; in St. Christopher's Court in Threadneedle Street, 1718.

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

TOOKEY (R.), printer in London, behind the Royal Exchange, 1695 (?)–1724. Dunton [pp. 250,696] referred to him as a "pretty modest obliging Printer". He contributed one guinea to the Bowyer fund in 1713, and is mentioned by Negus in 1724 as "well-affected".