Publications of Abr. Chandler

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 Abr. Chandler

  • Shower, John. Death a deliverance. Or, A funeral discourse, preach'd (in part) on the decease of Mrs. Mary Doolittle, (late wife of Mr. Thomas Doolittle, minister of the Gospel in London.) who departed this life the 16th of Decemb. 1692. By John Shower. London: printed for Abr. Chandler, at the Chyrurgeons Arms, at the entrance into Bartholomews-Close, in Aldersgate-street. And Samuel Wade, at the Bible under the Piaza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1692. [i.e. 1693]. ESTC No. R184223. Grub Street ID 73876.