Publications of George Larkin

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."

Sold by George Larkin

  • Bunyan, John. A discourse of the building, nature, excellency, and government of the house of God. With counsels and directions to the inhabitants thereof. By John Bunyan of Bedford. London: printed, and are to be sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate, 1688. ESTC No. R215887. Grub Street ID 90844.

Printed for George Larkin

  • Waite, John. H=e z=emia t=es agaps=e: the loss of love: or, Christ contending through the clouds with His spouse, for the loss of her first love. Being a sermon first preached before an honourable assembly upon Mount Zion: and since augmented with some after-gleanings. And now published for the good of the many thousands of Israel. Whereunto is added, A call for a Christless sinner: or, a few considerations for them that are going down to the damned. By John Waite, a poor servant of (a rich master) Jesus Christ. London: printed for George Larkin, [1666]. ESTC No. R219499. Grub Street ID 94025.