A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Cooke (William)

COOKE (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Near Furnivall's Inn Gate in Holborn, 1632–41. A publisher chiefly of law books, but also shared with Andrew Crooke, the copyrights in several plays, including William Habington's Queene of Arragon, 1640, and several of those of James Shirley. He was also associated with M. Walbancke in the publication of Sir Henry Spelman's De Sepultura, 1641. The last heard of him is in 1641, when he issued Sir Ed. Coke's The compleate Copy-Holder, with a preface from his own pen.