Publications of Iohn Hancock

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 Iohn Hancock

  • Woodward, Ezekias. Soft answers, unto hard censures: relating, I. To a book printed without licence. A full accompt given thereof. II. To my particular calling: 3 offences relating thereunto removed: and the dutie of visiting families and schooles is pressed upon magistrates and ministers, whose duty it is to visite there, enquiring how the governours and governed, do answer their relations, the one commanding, the other obeying in the Lord. III. To the offence given by a book called an Anti-apologie, which I have said, is a great offence to the Church of God; and that they, who write as Mr. Edwards does, too many by two, have offended their lord and master, ... IV. And to the offence taken by my short defence of the Apol: narration; whether the offence is justly given, or unjustly taken, is humbly submitted to better judgement, upon due consideration of two exceptions, all I ever heard made against it by discreet and sober men. By Hezekiah Woodward. [London]: Printed according to order, for Iohn Hancock; at the entrance into Popes-head Alley, out of Cornhill, 1645. ESTC No. R212399. Grub Street ID 88002.