Publications of I. Sweeting

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 I. Sweeting

  • Johnson, John. Johnsons arithmetick in two books. The first of vulgar arithmetick, with easie rules to worke all the first four parts of arithmetick, in whole numbers and fractions. The second of decimal arithmetick; whereby all fractional operations are wrought in whole numbers in merchants accounts, without reduction, with the perfect working of interests and annuities. By John Johnson, surveyor, and practicioner in the mathematicks. The seventh edition. Whereunto is added tables of interest, exactly calculated at 6 per cent. with other tables, as the reduction of weights, value of leases and annuities, the weight and value of English gold; rebate at 6 per cent. very delightful and profitable. London: printed by R. & W. Leybourn for I. Sweeting, at the Angel in Popes-head Alley, 1657. ESTC No. R179107. Grub Street ID 70665.