Publications of H. Rodes

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 H. Rodes

  • The history of the life, victorious reign, and death of K. Henry VIII. Containing an account of his wars and victories over the French and Scots, &c. To which is added a compendium, of the life and reign of that glorious and pious prince King Edward the Sixth; in both which reigns you have a particular account of the considerable progress which was made towards the Reformation. Illustrated with cuts, of the most considerable occurrences curiously engraven on copper plates. London: printed, and are to be sold by H. Rodes, next door to the Bear Tavern, near Bride Lane, in Fleetstreet, 1682. ESTC No. S121588. Grub Street ID 141171.

Printed for H. Rodes

  • Barrin, Jean. Venus in the cloister, Or The nun in her smock. [microform] : In curious dialogues, addressed to the Lady Abbess of Loves Paradice, / by the Abbot Du Prat. ; Done out of French. London,: Printed for H. Rodes, next dore to the Bear Tavern near Bride-Lane in Fleet-Street, 1683. ESTC No. R174889. Grub Street ID 67933.