Publications of H. Marston

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 H. Marston

  • Strange and wonderful news. Being a true, tho' sad relation of six sea-men. (Belonging to the Margaret of Boston,) who sold themselves to the Devil, and were invisibly carry'd away. With an account of the said ship being sunk under water, where she continued full eleven weeks: all which time, to admiration, the rest of the ship's crew liv'd, and fed upon raw meat, and live fish, that swam over their heads. The names of the three persons, that were (thro' mercy) preserv'd so long under water, were William Davies, (a man very well known to the merchants in London,) Mr. William Kadner, and Mr. VVilliam Bywater. There was only one boy drowned. The truth of which strange and miraculous relation, will be attested at Mr. Loyd's Coffee House, near the general post-office, in Lumbard-Street; wherre the original letter, at large, will be shewn to any person, that desires to be further satisfy'd in the truth hereof; and by several eminent merchants upon the Exchange. London: printed for H. Marston, in Cornhil, [1700?]. ESTC No. R184679. Grub Street ID 74114.