Green’s Dictionary of Slang

rookery (nook) n.

[rhy. sl.; ult. the Ben Travers farce Rookery Nook (1926)]

1. a book.

[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog.
[UK]M. Coles Bible in Cockney 11: We can read how this geezer was made in the rookery of Genesis.

2. a cook.

[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog.