Publications of the Crown

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 for the Crown

  • A new discovery of the nature of the plague. And the true cause of its raging in European cities. With the remedy. Contrary to the opinion of Dr. Meade, Dr. Browne, and others, who give for the First Causes of the Plague, in late Discourses, Air, Diet, and Disease. London: printed for T. Bickerton; at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row and J. Wilford, at the Three Flower de-Luces in Little Britain, [1721]. ESTC No. N10011. Grub Street ID 19.