Publications of Rich: Tomlins

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 Rich: Tomlins

  • Collinges, John. The lost sheep brought home: or, Severall sermons preached upon Cant.8.5. Divided into three parts. 1. The first, discovering the state of the elect by nature. 2. The second, discovering the way of restauration and redemption, by the Lord Jesus Christ. 3. The third, discovering the use of faith, or the spouses posture in every wildernesse: this last having been before published, and now againe reprinted, with the addition of the other two parts. Preached by Iohn Collings, Master of Arts, one of the preachers of Gods Word to the congregation within Great Peter parish in Norwich. Printed at London: for Rich: Tomlins, and are to be sold at his house at the signe of the Sun and Bible in Pye-corner, 1649. ESTC No. R174085. Grub Street ID 67379.