Publications of Simon Burton

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 Simon Burton

  • Quevedo, Francisco de. Hell reformed or A glasse for favorits. Their falls and complaints also the complaints of princes against their favorits. With the dangerous mischiefes of state politicks, flatterers, suborners, secret accusers, false witnesses &c. Also the reasons of a devill, why hee had rather continue in hell; then returne and live againe on earth: with the acclamations of a testator, for making his will before hee dyed: and his advice to others therein: also the decree of Lucifer, for reformation, with many other notable passages, worthy observation. Discovered in a vision, by D.F.Q. Published by E.M. gent. London: printed by E. Griffin for Simon Burton, and are to be sold at his shop next the Miter Taverne within Algate, 1641. ESTC No. R218469. Grub Street ID 93122.