Publications of the non-conformists

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 non-conformists

  • How, Samuel. The sufficiency of the Spirit's teaching without human learning. Or, a treatise tending to prove human learning, to be no help to the spiritual understanding of the word of God. Written (if it may be) for the silencing of such false and scandalous reports as have been rumoured about concerning this matter; and also for the information of all such as desire to know the truth. By Samuel How. The sixth edition corrected. Seen, allow'd, and first printed by some friends of the author, 1639. London: printed for a friend of the author, and sold by William and Joseph Marshall, at the Bible in Newgate Street. Price 6d. Where are likewise sold Delaun's Plea for the non-conformists; and Mr. Bunyan's works; Caryl on Job, in two large volumes in folio; and Poole's Synopsis Criticorum, &c., [ca. 1727]. ESTC No. N69914. Grub Street ID 50732.