A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Starkey (John)
STARKEY (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) The Mitre at the North Door of the Middle Exchange, in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1658; (2) The Mitre near the Middle Temple Gate; (3) The Mitre, between the Middle Temple Gate and Temple Bar, 1667 [1658-67.] Son of George Starkey, of Isley Walton, in the County of Leicester. Put himself apprentice to John Saywell, q.v., for eight years from November 6th, 1655. Took up his freedom April 20th, 1664. Published several notable books of travel, amongst which may be mentioned Sir P. Ricaut's Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 1667. Hazlitt, ii. 527, gives an interesting account of Samuel Pepys' copy of this work, which contains a list of books published by Starkey in 1667. He was one of the founders of the periodical bibliography called Mercurius Librarius, which began in Michaelmas Term, 1668, and was afterwards succeeded by the Term Catalogues. [Arber, Term Catalogues, vol. 1, pp. viii-x.]