Publications of Adoniram Byfield

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 Adoniram Byfield

  • Sedgwick, Obadiah. The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant, wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation. Also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers. By that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick B.D. late minister of the Gospel in Covent-Garden, London. Perfected and intended for the press, therefor corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript, allowed by himself in his life-time, by those whom he intrusted with this work for that purpose. London: printed by Edward Mottershed, for Adoniram Byfield, and are to be sold by Joseph Cranford, at the sign of the Castle and Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1661. ESTC No. R17565. Grub Street ID 68467.