Publications of Jos. Blaicklock

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 Jos. Blaicklock

  • Purnell, Robert. No power but of God: and yet a power in every creature. Or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason. Wherein is held forth, that the Almighty God is not wanting to us, in impowering of us; but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him. The Almighty gives to every man some talent or talents, viz. To some natural, to others Spiritual talents or gifts: but there is no man that improves his talent so well as he might, in point of obedience to him. ... The abuse of Gospel-ordinances by some, doth not take away the lawful use of them to others. The second edition; corrected and augmented, by Robert Purnel. London: printed by T. Mab, for Jos. Blaicklock, dwelling in Ivy-lane, 1652. ESTC No. R209330. Grub Street ID 85558.