Publications of John Ruddiard

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 John Ruddiard

  • The complete academy: or a drawing book, containing the pencil's improvement, with the ground-vvork of the art of drawing, limning, painting, graving, and how to whet the graver: and also etching. The real art of mixtures of all sorts of colours both for painting and limning; also how to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the collours; and the plainest method for colouring maps and prints, are faithfully discovered. With some geometrical rules for ovals, escutcheons, circles, &c. With an addition of that necessary parts the trunks of bodies. In the drawing part Abraham Bloemaert and Jean Cozyne are followed, answering to Fiolets discourse of the measures of whole bodies and parts. In the limning part you have from a manuscript (which came happily to hand out of the collection of Mr. Garrat, limner to Queen Elizabeth) the perfect discourse how to prepare, mix, and work all those colours; with directions what lights to use in drawing by the life, with the height and distance the party o. The second edition, with many experienc'd additions, by the author.. London: printed by R[obert]. Battersby, for John Ruddiard, and are to be sold at the Unicorn in the Piazza, under the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1672. ESTC No. R174203. Grub Street ID 67458.