Publications of Abel Swal

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 Abel Swal

  • Du Pin, Louis Ellies. A new ecclesiastical history, containing an account of the controversies in religion; the lives and writings of ecclesiastical authors; an abridgment of their works, and a judgment on their style and doctrine: also, a compendious history of the councils and all affairs transacted in the Church. VVritten in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin, Doctor of the Sorbon. Volume the tenth; containing the history of the tvvelfth century. London: printed for Abel Swal, at the Vnicorn in Pater-Noster-Row, and Timothy Child, at the White-Hart in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, MDCXCVIII. [1698]. ESTC No. R202546. Grub Street ID 79778.