Publications of Henry Porton

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."

Sold by Henry Porton

  • Ayres, Daniel. Arithmetick made easier than any hitherto extant; for the farther improvement and interest of trades-men. Wherein is exhibited, That very useful Science, in a new and more familiar Manner in all its Branches, both vulgar and decimal. With the ready way of computing divers sorts of Goods sold by Retale. Also, A practical Specimen of Mensuration of plains and solids. By D. Ayres, School-Master at the Hand and Pen near Hannover Square. London: printed and sold by Henry Porton, Bookseller in Little Brittain, 1723. ESTC No. N29904. Grub Street ID 18909.