Publications of Francis Bugg

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 Francis Bugg

  • Bugg, Francis. The last will and testament of that impostor George Fox, the Quakers admired idol, written with his own hand, and is now lying in the prerogative-office, by doctors-commons, London: attested so to be, by G. Whitehead, S. Mead, and W. Ingram; as more largely is recited in my book, quakerism drooping, &c. p. 147. Printed 1703. And this will may serve for an answer to the Quakers grand query in their book a light shining out of darkness, &c. P. 116. Viz. Is not the Gospel of John as bad Greek as any Quakers English? I answer, No. Compare St. John's Gospel with this will. The sixth edition.. London]: Printed for Francis Bugg, (who supposes that there are many necessary Houses in England, Scotland, and Ireland, where with the white of an egg this will may be cleaved up; and it will be as extensive in its use and application, as that legacy C. Fox, in his will, gave to Dr. Thomas Lower, namely, the thing people give glisters with) and sold by C. Erome, and J. Tayler in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1703. ESTC No. N33954. Grub Street ID 22393.