Publications of I. Vnderwood

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 I. Vnderwood

  • Owen, John. The true copy of a Welch sermon preached before Prince Maurice in Wales upon his departure thence by Shon up Owen, Priest. VVherein is desired that Prince Maurice would not plunder her townes and villages, for they were all poore men and not able to buy her a new cushion to make her preach on. For which sermon Iohn up Owen was committed to prison, put by her benefice, and exiled the country: whereunto is added Iohn up Owens complaint for her sad losse. [London]: Printed for I. Vnderwood, 1643. ESTC No. R11173. Grub Street ID 59484.