A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Cripps (Henry)
CRIPPS (HENRY), bookseller at Oxford and London, (1) Oxford, 1620–40; (2) London: The first shop in Pope's Head-Alley, next Lombard Street, 1650-61. Very little is known respecting this bookseller. He is found publishing books at Oxford from 1620 to 1640, notably the first and second editions of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621 and 1624, but between 1640 and 1650 he left Oxford and settled in London, where he joined Lodowick Lloyd, q.v., in several ventures. His death took place about 1661, and he was succeeded by his widow, who continued the business for several years. [Madan's Early Oxford Press, pp. 278, etc.]