London bookseller and publisher of Monthly Literary Recreations; he was the London agent for John Ridge who published Byron's Fugitive Pieces in Newark. He was paralysed in 1814; the following year was succeeded by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy.

REFERENCES TO Ben Crosby:

Lord Byron to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 13 July 1807 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 2 August 1807 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 11 August 1807 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)