Publications of M. Wright

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 M. Wright

  • Haward, Lazarus. The charges issuing forth of the crown revenue of England, and dominion of VVales. With the several officers of his Majesties courts, customs, housholds, houses, castles, towns of war, forts, bulwarks, forrests, parks, chases, with their several fees and allowances, according to the ancient establishment of the kingdom. And also the valuation of the bishops, and deanes lands, with the tenths paid out of the same. By Captain Lazarus Haward. London: printed for M. Wright, at the signe of the Kings Head in the Old Bailey, 1660. ESTC No. R202381. Grub Street ID 79627.