Publications of R: Tomlins

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 R: Tomlins

  • Collinges, John. Indoctus doctor edoctus: or a short ansvver to a little tract of Theophilus Brabourn's, concerning the changing of church-discipline. Wherern [sic] the pitifull simplicity of the said tract is discovered, and the authors folly made manifest to all men. And it is made fully appear, that he hath sayd nothing to the purpose, in attempting to prove that the government of the Church ought to be put into the hands of the magistrate. With an answer to what the said author hath said in it, concerning the Sabbath, together with a copy of his recantation of the very same doctrine in the High Commission. By John Collings, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel in the city of Norwich. Febr. 15. 1653. Imprimatur Edmund Calamy. London: printed by H: Hills for R: Tomlins, and are to be sold at the Sun and Bible near Py-corner, 1654. ESTC No. R207515. Grub Street ID 83890.