John Hooke (d. 1730; fl. 1718–1730)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Dates

  • Apprenticeship: 1704
  • Freedom: 1712
  • Clothed: 1717

Names

  • John Hooke
  • John Hook

John Hooke, bookseller at the Flower de Luce, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1718–1730. Son of John Hooke, Citizen and Stationer. Apprenticed to Charles Harper.

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

HOOKE (J.), bookseller in London, Flower de Luce, over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, 1718–25. Publisher of the Rev. John Lyly's False Friend and Inconstant Mistress, 1718. [Haz. I. 270.] In 1722 he was one of the publishers of a novel called The Adventures of the Prince of Clermont, and was still publishing in 1725. [Esdaile, pp. 189, 191.]

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

HOOKE, J. His shop was situated at the Flower de Luce, against St. Dunstan's church in Fleet Street. He first appears in press advertisements in 1718. The last reference I have found to him is in February, 1731.

—Frederick T. Wood, 29 August 1931

HOOKE, J. This bookseller is doubtless identical with John Hooke, whose stock was sold by auction, 31 May, 1731, after his death.

—Ambrose Heal, 31 October 1931