CROSSE (JOHN), English bookseller in Amsterdam; in the Calver Street, near the English Church, 1646. His imprint is found in John Featly's Fountain of Tears, 1646.
CROUCH (EDWARD), printer in London; Hosier Lane, Snow Hill, 1649-64. This printer is mentioned in the list of those bound over in 1649 not to print seditious pamphlets. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649-50, pp. 522, 523.] He was chiefly a printer of ephemeral literature such as the following broadside, An elegy on the most execrable murther of Mr. Clun one of the comedeans of the Theator Royal, 1664. [Lutt Col. 1 (44).]
CROUCH, or CROWCH (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1635(?)-1653. Two men of this name took up their freedoms in the Stationers' Company within a few years of each other, the earlier of the two on February 4th, 1635, and the other on December 2nd, 1639, but whether they were related is not known. The first was the publisher of several of Thomas Heywood's plays, and cannot be traced after 1640. The second was apparently in partnership with Thomas Wilson, q.v., at the Sign of the 3 Foxes in Long Lane, and printed with him Mercurius Democritus, and also a pamphlet entitled The Tyranny of the Dutch against the English, in 1653. [Arber, iii. 687, 688.]
CRUMPE (JAMES), bookseller (?) and bookbinder in London; Little St. Bartholomews Well Yard, 1630-61. Took up his freedom on May 5th, 1628. He was the chief publisher of that voluminous writer Robert Younge, of Roxwell, in Essex.
CURTEYNE (ALICE), bookseller at Oxford, 1651. Widow of Henry Curteyn, q.v.
CURTEYNE (AMOS), bookseller in Oxford, 1665. His imprint is found in a little book of orthography called The Vocal Organ … Compiled by O. P. Master of Arts … Oxford. Printed by William Hall for Amos Curteyne, 1665. [B.M. G. 16589.]
CURTEYN (HENRY) bookseller at Oxford, 1625-51. The probate of his will is dated 1651. [Madan, Early Oxford Press, pp. 278, 299, etc.]
