Publications of William Birch

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 William Birch

  • Clarke, Samuel. The lives of thirty-two English divines, famous in their generations for learning and piety, and most of them sufferers in the cause of Christ. Together, with the lives of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden; Jaspar Coligni, Admiral of France (who was slain in the massacre of Paris); and of Joan, Queen of Navar, who died a few dayes before that bloody massacre. You have also, lively represented, the effigies of some of the eminent divines, in copper-plates. The third edition, corrected, and enlarged. By Samuel Clarke, late Pastor of St. Bennet = Fink, London. London: printed for William Birch, at the Peacock at the Lower-end of Cheap-side, 1677. ESTC No. R11415. Grub Street ID 59703.