Publications of Nathaniel Ranew

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 Nathaniel Ranew

  • Bernard, Richard. Thesaurus Biblicus, seu Promptuarium sacrum. Whereunto are added, all the marginal readings, with the words of the text; and many words in the text expounded by the text; all alphabetically set down throughout the Bible. In the end is annexed an abstract of the principal matters contained in the holy Scripture. By Richard Bernard, late rector of Batcombe. See the contents and use of all, in the Epistle to the reader. The second edition, very much enlarged, by William Retchforde. London: printed for Nathaniel Ranew, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1661. ESTC No. R172728. Grub Street ID 66508.