Publications of pha Harford

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 pha Harford

  • Brooks, Thomas. The glorious day of the saints appearance; calling for a glorious conversation from all beleevers. Delivered in a sermon by Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Thomas Apostles, at the interment of the corps of that renowned commander, Colonell Thomas Rainsborough. Who was treacherously murthered on the Lords day in the morning at Doncaster, October 29. 1648. and honourably interred the 14th of November following, in the chappell at Wapping neare London. London: printed by M.S. for Rapha Harford, and Matthew Simmons, and are to be sold at the Bible in Queens-head Alley in Pater-noster-row, and in Aldersgate-streete, 1648. ESTC No. R205359. Grub Street ID 82132.