Publications of Matthew Street

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 Matthew Street

  • Gadbury, John. Nauticum astrologicum: or, the astrological seaman; directing merchants, marriners, captains of ships, ensurers, &c. how (by Gods blessing) they may escape divers dangers which commonly happen in the ocean· Unto which is added a diary of the weather for XXI. years together, exactly observed in London, with sundry observations thereon. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology. London: printed for Matthew Street, MDCXCI. [1691]. ESTC No. R223617. Grub Street ID 97409.