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Charles Cooke

Header: Charles Cooke
Also known as: Charles Cooke; primary name: Cooke, Charles
Details: individual; publisher/printer; British; Male
Life dates: 1759/1760-1816
Address: 17 Paternoster Row (in 1791 and 3 and 10 March 1792) 15 Paternoster Row (in 1792) Paternoster Row, London (in 1795)
Biography: Major publisher of a number of pocket series which made him a fortune. They were published under the generic title the 'Pocket Library'. It included: 'Select British Novels' from 1792; 'Select British Poets' from 1794-1805; later adding Essays, Drama, Histories, Sacred Classics (ie devotional works). They were heavily illustrated with high quality plates, and Cooke is said to have commissioned 1,000 engravings in total. Retired c.1805. For a run of 197 of his plates see 1848,0708.383 to 579; fior another run see 1863,0214.358 to 458.
Bibliography: DNB, under John Cooke Hugh Amory, '"Proprietary illustration": the case of Cooke's Tom Jones', in R. Harvey, W. Kirsop and B. J. McMullin (ed.), 'An index of of civilisation', Monash University 1993. Thomas F Bonnell, 'The most disreputable trade', Oxford 2008, chapter 8.

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Museum number: 1875,0710.1243 |
Producer name: After:J WholleyAfter:Robert William Satchwell |
Production date: 1799

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1897,1231.202 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Edward Francis Burney |
Production date: 1817

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4925 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1848,0708.571 |
Producer name: After:J WholleyPrint made by:Richard Woodman I |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4922 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print; book-illustration

Title: The Bald Batchelor |
Museum number: 1930,0512.260 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPublished by:James Cundee |
Production date: 1801

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4937 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4932 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print

Title: Dr Watts |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.25.102 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the youngerAfter:George White |
Production date: 1800-1810

print; book-illustration

Title: Solomon |
Museum number: 1848,0708.553 |
Producer name: Print made by:John ScottAfter:John Thurston |
Production date: 1803

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4936 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4935 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1977,U.757 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SaundersAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1798

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4983 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1790

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4996 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1790-1794

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.576 |
Producer name: After:J WholleyAfter:Robert William Satchwell |
Production date: 1801

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3758 |
Producer name: After:J WholleyAfter:Robert William Satchwell |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4984 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1790

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.418 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:John Saunders |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4930 |
Producer name: BIOG19529 Print made by:John Bewick |
Production date: 1793-1794

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3657 |
Producer name: Print made by:William MiltonAfter:Robert Smirke |
Production date: 1780-1790

print; book-illustration

Title: Bunyan. |
Museum number: 1848,0708.384 |
Producer name: Print made by:William RidleyPublished by:Charles Cooke |
Production date: 1796

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.578 |
Producer name: After:J WholleyPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1802

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.712 |
Producer name: After:Thomas KirkPrint made by:John Chapman |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3309 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3761 |
Producer name: After:J De WildePrint made by:James Neagle |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3260 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1796-1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.529 |
Producer name: After:Thomas KirkPrint made by:John Saunders |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.458 |
Producer name: Print made by:W HawkinsAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1848,0708.453 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.448 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldAfter:Robert William Satchwell |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3271 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:John Saunders |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.549 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Anker Smith |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3254 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:John Saunders |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Title: Random and Strap proceding to London |
Museum number: 1978,U.1641 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WarrenAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1978,U.1635 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WarrenAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1951,1110.70.19 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1863,0214.393 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1848,0708.468 |
Producer name: Print made by:W HawkinsAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1790s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.415 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Gil Blas |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3125 |
Producer name: After:J AllenPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: George Marquis of Buckingham. |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1803 |
Producer name: Print made by:William GraingerAfter:W H Brown |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1878,0713.4286 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.1639 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WarrenAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Henry Duke of Portland. |
Museum number: 1871,0610.700 |
Producer name: Print made by:William GraingerAfter:W H Brown |
Production date: 1791-1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1951,1110.70.15 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:J Granger |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.460 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1863,0214.405 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Churchill |
Museum number: 1840,0908.286 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:J Granger |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.442 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.2446 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1951,1110.70.20 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:J Granger |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Chinese Tales |
Museum number: 1848,0708.398 |
Producer name: Print made by:W HawkinsAfter:W H Brown |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3236 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Earl Mansfield |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.30.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WarrenAfter:W H Brown |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Right Honble Sr George Yonge |
Museum number: 1924,0125.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WarrenAfter:W H Brown |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Shipwreck |
Museum number: 1878,0511.839 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:S Springsguth |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1951,1110.70.24 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.385 |
Producer name: After:Thomas KirkPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mrs Siddons as Jane Shore |
Museum number: 1931,0509.129 |
Producer name: Print made by:John ChapmanAfter:William Hamilton |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.557 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1802 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3257 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Broome. |
Museum number: 1848,0708.383 |
Producer name: Print made by:William RidleyAfter:John Theodore Heins Senior |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.436 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Lord Robert Spencer. |
Museum number: 1951,1110.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:William GraingerAfter:W H Brown |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.434 |
Producer name: After:Thomas KirkPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, the great favourite of Chaarles I, stabbed at Portsmouth by Felt |
Museum number: 1872,1109.130 |
Producer name: After:Samuel WalePrint made by:Charles Grignion |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1867,0309.1323 |
Producer name: After:Edward Francis BurneyPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3287 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1951,1110.71 |
Producer name: BIOG23629 After:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1797-1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3300 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.410 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.550 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3232 |
Producer name: BIOG23521 Published by:Charles Cooke |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Hughes |
Museum number: 1848,0708.388 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the elderAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.358 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3282 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1978,U.243 |
Producer name: Print made by:W HawkinsAfter:Richard Corbould |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.411 |
Producer name: After:Edward Francis BurneyPrint made by:W Archibald |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Robinson Crusoe |
Museum number: 1848,0708.397 |
Producer name: After:J AllenPrint made by:William Grainger |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Phillips |
Museum number: 1848,0708.390 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the elderAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3281 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.492 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1802 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.408 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Anker Smith |
Production date: 1801 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.401 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.554 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Cosmo Armstrong |
Production date: 1801 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3459 |
Producer name: After:Conrad Martin MetzPrint made by:J P de Moulinville |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: R,9.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:William GraingerPublished by:Charles Cooke |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: King Charles the First after his retreat from York to Nottingham, ordereing the Royal Standard to be |
Museum number: 1872,1109.132 |
Producer name: After:Samuel WalePrint made by:Charles Taylor |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Single Combat between King Edmund II, and Canute the Great ... |
Museum number: 1872,1109.85 |
Producer name: After:Samuel WalePrint made by:Charles Grignion |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3324 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.524 |
Producer name: After:Thomas KirkPrint made by:William Nutter |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Broome. |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1869 |
Producer name: Print made by:William RidleyAfter:John Theodore Heins Senior |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.484 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1802 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Museum number: 1848,0708.420 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPublished by:Charles Cooke |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1878,0713.4305 |
Producer name: After:John ThurstonPrint made by:Abraham Raimbach |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,0708.508.+ |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldAfter:Robert William Satchwell |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Gessner |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2351 |
Producer name: Print made by:William RidleyPublished by:Charles Cooke |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.422 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:W Hawkins |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Gessner |
Museum number: 1888,0716.69 |
Producer name: Print made by:William RidleyPublished by:Charles Cooke |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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