booke

plural bookes

1. archaicArchaic spelling of book.

   Scene 10: Enter five or sixe Protestants with bookes, and kneele together.

   1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris

   2 more examples

   TO ALL SVCH AS HAVE receiued either pleasure or profite by the two former published bookes of this Argument: And to all beside, that desire to know the wonderfull slie deuises of this hellish crew of Conny-catchers.

   1592, R. G., The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592)

   Now in good truth I wood theis bookes were burnd That rapp men from their friends before their time, How does my uncles friend, no other name I need give him, to whom I give my selfe.

   1606, anonymous author, “Sir Gyles Goosecappe”, in A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III