Publications of Bennet Griffin

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 Bennet Griffin

  • France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV).. The French King's new declaration an edict of the King, declaring that the next of kin and lawful heirs of such persons as are fled for their religion, shall enter into possession of the estates and goods which they have left behind in the kingdom, yet without any power to sell or alienate them, till after the expiration of five years. Given at Versailles, in the month of December 1689. Register'd in Parliament, Decemb. 9. 1689. Licens'd December 7. 1689. J.F. London: printed for Ben[net] Griffin, at the sign of the Griffin in the Old-Bayly, 1689. ESTC No. R225330. Grub Street ID 98529.