Publications of R. White

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed by R. White

  • Saunders, Richard. Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled; with their natural-predictive-significations. The subject of dreams; divinative, steganographical, and Lullian sciences. Whereunto is added the art of memorie. By Richard Sanders, student in the divine and celestial sciences. London: printed by R. White, for Nathaniel Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange, 1653. ESTC No. R10039. Grub Street ID 58437.

Printed for R. White

  • The worlds wonder! or, the prophetical fish. Being a full description of this monster, its length & breadth with predictions on it. as it was taken by fisher-men in the port of [Cu]canga, neer the province and kingdom of China, in the year 1664. and sent to the Emperour of Germany, and from thence convey'd to his royal majesty, the king of Great Brittain, &c. To the tune of, When stormy winds do blow. London: printed for R. White at the Bible in Giltspur-street, [1666?]. ESTC No. R234035. Grub Street ID 105429.