Publications of Philip Nevil

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 Philip Nevil

  • Cotton, John. A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon; lively describing the estate of the church in all the ages thereof, both Jewish and Christian, to this day: and modestly pointing at the gloriousnesse of the restored estate of the church of the Iewes and the happy accesse of the gentiles, in the approaching daies of reformation, when the wall of partition shall bee taken away. A work very usefull and seasonable to every Christian; but especially such as endeavour and thirst after the setling of church and state, according to the rule and pattern of the Word of God. Written by that learned and godly divine John Cotton, Batchelor of Divinity; and now pastor of the congregation at Boston, in New-England. London: printed for Philip Nevil, at the signe of the Gun in Ivie-Lane, 1642. ESTC No. R20552. Grub Street ID 82245.