Publications of Iohn. Wright

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 Iohn. Wright

  • An ordinance of the Lords and Commons, assembled in Parliament. For the calling of an assemblie of learned, and godly divines to be consulted with by the Parliament, for the setling of the government and liturgie, of the Church of England, and for vindicating and clearin the doctrine of the said church, from false aspersions and interpretations; as shall be most agreeable to the Word of God. With the names of all the ministers appointed for the same. Die Lunæ, 12. Jun. 1643. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. J. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. London: printed for I[ohn]. Wright, in the Old Baily, June 13. 1643. ESTC No. R175196. Grub Street ID 68160.