Publications of Iohn Grove

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 Iohn Grove

  • Smith, William. A relation and vindication of one William Smith, alias, Dowsing, a souldier in service of the state, against Iohn Wilson, and Captaine Edward Story, his adversaries. Who surreptiously, and maliciously, by false information, obtained a commission of bankrupt against him i his absence. And the wisedome, equitie, and impartiallity of the right honourable Henry, Earl of Kent; Oliver, Earle of Bullingbrooke; and the other commissioners for the custody of the great Seale of England, in calling his adversaries to accompt before them, and righting his wrong. Printed at London: for Iohn Grove, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery Lane neer the Rolls, 1644. ESTC No. R11897. Grub Street ID 60126.