Publications of Jos. Howes

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 Jos. Howes

  • Lawrence, Richard. The interest of Ireland in its trade and wealth stated. In two parts. First part observes and discovers the causes of Irelands not more increasing in trade and wealth from the first conquest till now. Second part proposeth expedients to remedy all its mercanture maladies and other wealth-wasting enormities, by which it is kept poor and low. Both mix'd with some observations on the politicks of government, relating to the incouragement of trade and increase of wealth. With some reflections on principles of religion, as it relates to the premisses. By Richard Lawrence Esq;. Dublin: printed by Jos. Ray, for Jos. Howes, and are to be sold by Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row, near Amen-Corner, London, 1682. ESTC No. R11185. Grub Street ID 59495.