Publications of Humphrey Blunden

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 Humphrey Blunden

  • L., W.. Nevves from Turkie, or, A true relation of the passages of the Right honourable Sir Tho. Bendish, baronet, Lord Ambassadour with the Grand Signieur at Constantinople, his entertainment and reception there. Also, a true discourse of the unjust proceedings of Sir Sackvile Crow, former ambassadour there, against the English merchants, his contest with the present Lord Ambassadour, and Sir Sackviles imprisonment, and in his returne, his wretched betraying the captain of the ship, and some English merchants, at Alicant in Spain, to the Inquisition; lastly his commitment to the Tower of London, where now he is. London: printed for Humphrey Blunden, and to be sold at his shop in Corn-Hill, next to the Castle Taverne, 1648. ESTC No. R105. Grub Street ID 58867.