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As the 17th century rolled on the number of printers in 

 Dublin increased, and I refer to some of them — Samuel Helsham, 

 who printed at the "Sign of the College" in Castle Street; 

 Joseph Ray, Avho printed for many years in Dublin, and well 

 on into the 18th century, but was never King's Printer. He 

 printed for the Corporation of Dublin and other important 

 bodies. John Crook, jun., the son, died and then his mother 

 undertook some of the printing work, and his brother Andrew 

 also, who subsequently became a partner with Samuel Helsham, 

 and continued bere all during the reign of James H. Finally 

 Tooke appears to have returned to London, having assigned his 

 rights to Andrew Crook, and on the establishment of William 

 ni. upon the throne Andrew Crook became State Printer in 

 Ireland, and lived and laboured on well into the 18th century. 

 The names of some of the (jthcr printers appearing during the 

 latter part of the l7th century are Samuel Lee, Richard Wilde, 

 John Brent, John Whalley, J. Brocas, S. Powell, etc. 



By this time printing was thoroughly established in Dublin, 

 and there was great variety in the output of the various presses. 

 One printer I should have specially mentioned, namely, William 

 Malone, a Catholic, who was printer during the brief period in 

 which King James reigned in Ireland only. 



It would be too tedious to draw attention to all the classes 

 of works published in Dublin in the 17th century. These are set 

 out in the List which I have compiled and published in five 

 Parts, but I will take one or two classes of books and give you 

 some instances. Take School books of a non-religious character-, 

 that is, not Church Catechisms but ordinary secular school books, 

 and we find one of the first printed in Dublin was ' The Art of 

 Teaching," by Christopher Syms, 1634. Then we find later on, 

 during the period of the Restoration, Latin Grammars, Prosodies, 

 Books of Logic, even one or two editions of the Classics, Greek 

 Grammars, and so forth. Again, there were numerous poems 

 printed, and later on "Almanacks" became a necessity, and 

 various were the Almanacks printed in Dublin in the 17th 

 century. 



