After education at Amersham Grammar School, Elliot Stock first worked for the firm of Piper, Stephenson, and Spence and then in 1857 became an apprentice to Mr. B. L. Green, a book-seller at 62, Paternoster Row.
In 1877 Stock published facsimile first editions of The Pilgrim's Progress, The Compleat Angler and George Herbert's The Temple.
[3] Stock's firm published many other notable facsimile first editions, such as those for Robinson Crusoe, Rasselas and The Vicar of Wakefield.
The monthly Book-Prices Current was started in 1887 by the firm of Elliot Stock and became a standard reference for book dealers and collectors.
Their son Ernest Elliot Stock (1869–1957) was the author of The Ring of Ug, and Other Weird Tales[4] and publications on climbing in the Alps.