Publications of nry Playford

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 nry Playford

  • Jordan, Thomas. London's glory, or, The Lord mayor's show: containing an illustrious description of the several triumphant pageants, on which are represented emblematical figures, artful pieces of architecture, and rural dancing, with the speeches spoken in each pageant; also, three new songs, the first in praise of the Merchant-Taylors, the second the Protestants exhortation, and the third the plotting papists litany, with their proper tunes either to be sung or play'd. Performed on Friday, October XXIX. 1680. For the entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Patience Warde, knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London. At the proper cost and charges of the right worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors. Invented and composed by Tho. Jordan, gent. London: printed for John and Henry Playford, 1680. ESTC No. R12856. Grub Street ID 61006.