Publications of Ralph Simpson

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."

Sold by Ralph Simpson

  • Stafford, Richard. The necessity of keeping still unto the ordinances of religion, prayer, hearing the word, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Set forth in a sermon preached in the countrey on Acts V1.4. Wherein also is laid open, and manifested the errour of those people (commonly call'd Quakers) who do neglect the two latter. London: printed, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson, at the Harp in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1698. ESTC No. R202451. Grub Street ID 79689.

Printed for Ralph Simpson

  • Jekyll, Thomas. A sermon preach'd at St. Mary-le-Bow, June 27. 1698. Before the societies, for reformation of manners, in the city of London and Westminister. Published at their request. By Tho. Jekill, D.D. and Preacher at the New Church, in Westminster. London: printed by R. and T. Mead, for Ralph Simpson, and Richard Cumberland, at the Harp, and at the Angel, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1698. ESTC No. R16844. Grub Street ID 64652.