Publications of Dixy. Page

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 Dixy. Page

  • Peacham, Henry. The history of the five wise philosophers: or, the wonderful relation of the life of Jehosaphat the hermit, son of Avenerio King of Barma in India. The manner of his conversion to the Christian faith, and the horrid persecutions he suffered for the same. With the miracle he wrought: and how, after his turning hermit, he lived in a cell in the desart thirty six years. A treatise both pleasant, profitable, and pious. By H.P. Gent. London: printed for D[ixy]. Page, T[homas]. Passenger, and B[enjamin]. Hurlock, living on and near London-Bridge, 1672. ESTC No. R181567. Grub Street ID 72108.