John Leake (fl. 1673–1717)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 24318

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Printer

John Leake, printer and bookseller (1673–1717?), at the Crown in Fleet Street, between the two Temple Gates (with his father William); Jewin Street; Old Change.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

LEAKE (JOHN), bookseller and printer in London, Crown, Fleet Street, between the Two Temple Gates, 1673–1717 (?). Son of William Leake, with whom he was in partnership until 1679, when William's name appears in the Term Catalogue for the last time. [T.C. I. 363.] John Leake then appears to have set up as a printer, and between 1681 and 1693 printed for Awnsham Churchill, Jonathan Greenwood, Arthur Jones, Luke Meredith, Benjamin Needham, and Abel Swalle. [Haz. 1. 432; II. 67, 553, 592, 646; HI. 125, 233.] He was in all probability the Mr. Leake who in 1713 subscribed to the Bowyer relief fund; he may also be the person mentioned by Dunton [p. 292] as "humble Leek", and the J. L. who printed Sternhold and Hopkins for the Stationers' Company in 1717.