E. Cook

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 8179

E. Cooke, or Cook, bookseller and publisher at the Royal Exchange.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

COOKE, or COOKE (E.), bookseller and publisher in London, Royal Exchange, 1735. There is an advertisement of Moral Reflections on the Ministry of Cardinal Alberoni as printed and sold for E. Cook and others. [Daily Journal, January 13th, 1735.]

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

COOKE, EDWARD. He was a well-known bookseller at the Royal Exchange. In 1735 he issued a pirated edition of Henry Carey's play 'The Honest Yorkshireman,' in which he tried to disguise the fraud by printing a preface which soundly denounced all pirates as thieves and enemies of learning. A full account of this episode will be found in the present writer's articles on 'Pirate Printing in the Eighteenth Century,' cited above, and in the introduction to his edition of 'The Poems of Henry Carey,' (1930). Cooke was still in business near the Royal Exchange in 1750.

—Frederick T. Wood, 1 August 1931