Publications of Ric. Lownds

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 Ric. Lownds

  • Poole, Josua. The youth's guide: or, English accidence. Being a more short and easie way for the speedy attaining to the Latine tongue. So framed, that young children may be exercised therein as soon as they can but indifferently read English, and thereby enabled to turn any sentence into pure and elegant Latine. By Joshua Poole. Published by authority, and commended as generally necessary to be made use of in all schools of this kingdom. London: printed by R. Davenport, for Ric. Lownds, and are to be sold at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1662. ESTC No. R217683. Grub Street ID 92443.