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

by Henry Robert Plomer

BAKER (JOHN), bookseller in London; Ship in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1653. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 36, has this entry: "Novem. 16, 1653, John Baker, bookseller, died." Shirley's masque of Cupid and Death, which was presented before the Portuguese Ambassador upon March 26th, 1653, and apparently printed before the end of that year, has the imprint, "London: Printed according to the Authors own Copy, by T. W. for J. Crook and J. Baker, at the sign of the Ship in St. Paul's Church yard, 1653." There was another bookseller of this name.